From Disaster Response To Risk Management: Australia's National Drought Policy: 22 - Rilegato

Libro 2 di 41: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
 
9781402031236: From Disaster Response To Risk Management: Australia's National Drought Policy: 22

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An academically focused collection of papers highlighting the successes and challenges of a move from disaster to risk management in responding to drought. The book passes on the experiences gained from Australia’s trail-blazing new policy, introduced in 1992.

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(a) Dr Linda Botterill is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the National Europe Centre at the Australian National University where she is undertaking research on agricultural policy in Australia and Europe. She also lectures in political science in the School of Social Sciences. Dr Botterill has extensive experience in public policy having worked in the Australian Government Department of Primary Industries and Energy, as an adviser to two Cabinet Ministers and as a policy officer in two industry associations before undertaking her doctorate in political science at the ANU.

(b) Dr. Donald A. Wilhite is the founder and director of the National Drought Mitigation Center and Professor, School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has extensive experience in drought planning and policy, drought mitigation, and drought monitoring. Dr. Wilhite has worked with many federal agencies and state governments in the United States and with many foreign governments and international organizations on a broad range of drought management issues.

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9789048167999: From Disaster Response to Risk Management: Australia's National Drought Policy: 22

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ISBN 10:  904816799X ISBN 13:  9789048167999
Casa editrice: Springer, 2010
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