Unlimited

Authorized users

Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Making sense of natural disasters: the learning vacuum of bushfire public inquiries / Graham Dwyer.

9783030947781 (electronic bk.)
3030947785 (electronic bk.)
3030947777
9783030947774

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

English

1 online resource (xvii, 135 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-94778-1 doi

SD421.34.A8

634.96180994

This book examines the ways in which emergency management organizations make sense and learn from natural disasters. Examining recent bushfires in Australia, it demonstrates that whilst public inquiries that follow such disasters can be important for learning and change, they have ultimately created a learning vacuum insofar as their recommendations repeat themselves. This has kept governments and society focused on learning lessons about the past, rather than for the future. Accordingly, this book recommends a new approach to sensemaking and learning focused on prospective planning rather than retrospective recommendations, and where planning for the future is seen as the shared responsibility of the government, society, and the emergency management community in Australia and beyond. Graham Dwyer is Course Director at the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His research has been published in leading journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, Management Learning, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access limited to authorized users.

Description based on print version record.

Print version: 9783030947774
Making sense of natural disasters

Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources