The Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance

Brian J. Gerber is an Associate Professor in the College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Arizona State University. He is Co-Director of the ASU Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security and is Director of the Master of Arts in Emergency Management and Homeland Security degree program. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales (Australia), a Senior Sustainability Scholar with the Wrigley School of Sustainability, Arizona State University and a PLuS Alliance Fellow. His research interests and publications include work on disaster policy and management, bureaucracy and hazards management, and environmental policy and regulation. Dr. Gerber has designed, led and facilitated various emergency preparedness exercises, participated in catastrophic incident planning projects, and has conducted key program evaluations and policy analyses on topics ranging from large-scale disaster evacuations to pandemic preparedness. His applied work on disaster management has included partnerships with federal, state and local government agencies, as well as with numerous nonprofit organizations, both in terms of policy research and evaluation and direct field volunteerism during disaster incident response. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the Colorado Department of Public Safety, among others.

List of Articles

A
Agency Coordination and Cross-Sector Collaboration in Fragile States (Abdul-Akeem Sadiq and Jenna Tyler)
Agenda Setting and Natural Hazards (Rob A. DeLeo)

B
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Economic Resilience Actions (Adam Rose)
Bureaucratic Policymaking on Natural Hazards (Kristin Taylor O'Donovan)

C
Challenges for Natural Hazard and Risk Management in Mountain Regions of Europe (Margreth Keiler and Sven Fuchs)
Climate Adaptation Governance in Pakistan (Syed-Muhammad Ali, Akhtar Naeem Khan, and Hamna Shakeel)
Climate Change Adaptation in New Zealand (Paul Schneider and Bruce Glavovic)
Climate Change and Amplified Representations of Natural Hazards in Institutional Cultures (Scott Bremer, Paul Schneider, and Bruce Glavovic)
Climate Change as a Transboundary Policymaking Natural Hazards Problem (Elizabeth Albright)
Collaboration and Cross-Sector Coordination for Humanitarian Assistance in a Disaster Recovery Setting (David Sanderson)
Collective Choices Affecting Natural Hazards Governance, Risk, and Vulnerability (Thomas Thaler, David Shively, Jacob Petersen-Perlman, Lenka Slavikova, and Thomas Hartmann)
Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (Rajib Shaw)
Corruption and the Governance of Disaster Risk (David Alexander)

D
Democratic Policymaking and Community Hazards Management (Saundra Schneider)
Disaster and Emergency Planning for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (David Alexander)
Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adapation in South Asia (Mihir Bhatt, Ronak B. Patel, and Kelsey Gleason)
Disaster Risk, Moral Hazard, and Public Policy (Thomas Husted and David Nickerson)
Disasters and Large-Scale Population Dislocations: International and National Responses (Anthony Oliver-Smith)

E
Economic and Business Recovery (Joanne Stevenson, Ilan Noy, Garry McDonald, Erica Seville, and John Vargo)
Executive and Legislative Competition over Natural Hazards Policies (Deserai A. Crow)

F
Financing Community Resilience Before Disaster Strikes: Lessons from the United States (Charlotte L. Kirschner, Akheil Singla, and Angie Flick)
Fiscal Implications of Managing Natural Disasters for National and Subnational Governments (Qing Miao)
Flood Insurance and Flood Risk Reduction (Swenja Surminski)
Funding Flows: Transboundary Considerations of Disaster Recovery (Anuradha Mukherji)

G
Global Overview of the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Natural Hazard Governance (Terry Gibson and Benjamin Wisner)

H
Healthcare Challenges after Disasters in Lesser Developed Countries (Jan Reinhardt, Binhua Fu, and Joseph Balikuddembe)

I
Integrating Access and Functional Needs in Community Planning for Natural Hazards (Nnenia Campbell)
Inter-Agency Collaboration for Natural Hazard Management in Developed Countries (Nibedita Ray-Bennett, Daniel Mendez, Edris Alam, and Christian Morgner)
Involving people in informal settlements in NHG based on South African experience (Catherine Sutherland)

L
Lessons on Risk Governance From the UNISDR Experience (Sálvano Briceño)
Linking Hazard Vulnerability, Risk Reduction, and Institutionalized Choices (Jörn Birkmann and Joanna McMillan)
Linking Risk Reduction and Community Resilience (Hyunjung Ji)

M
Managed retreat in practice: Mechanisms, opportunities, and challenges for implementation (Christina Hanna, Bruce Glavovic, and Iain White)
Managing Vulnerability During Natural Disasters: Language Access Services (Federico Marco Federici)
Multi-Level Environmental Governance in the European Union and United States (Colin Provost)

N
Natural Disaster Risk Financing and Transfer in ASEAN Countries (Paul Raschky and Sommarat Chantarat)
Natural Hazards and their Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa (D. van Niekerk and Livhuwani David Nemakonde)
Natural Hazards and Voting Behavior (Olivier Rubin)
Natural Hazards Governance in Algeria (Djillali Benouar)
Natural Hazards Governance in Australia (John Minnery and Iraphne Childs)
Natural Hazards Governance in Canada (Jack Lindsay)
Natural Hazards Governance in China (Timothy Sim and Jun Lei Yu)
Natural Hazards Governance in Cuba (Enrique A. Castellanos Abella and Benjamin Wisner)
Natural Hazards Governance in Democratic States with Developed Economies (Patrick Roberts)
Natural Hazards Governance in Germany (Mark Kammerbauer)
Natural Hazards Governance in India (Anshu Sharma and Sunny Kumar)
Natural Hazards Governance in Indonesia (Bevaola Kusumasari)
Natural Hazards Governance in Mexico (Elizabeth Mansilla)
Natural Hazards Governance in Nepal (Katie Oven)
Natural Hazards Governance in Nigeria (Steve I. Onu)
Natural Hazards Governance in Russia (Svetlana Badina and Boris Porfiriev)
Natural Hazards Governance in South Africa (D. van Niekerk, G.J. Wentink, and L.B. Shoroma)
Natural Hazards Governance in South Asia (Mihir Bhatt)
Natural Hazards Governance in the Philippines (Kanako Iuchi, Yasuhito Jibiki, Renato Solidum Jr., and Ramon Santiago)
Natural Hazards Governance in Turkey (H. P. Gülkan)
Natural Hazards Governance in Western Europe (Florian Roth and Timothy Prior)
Natural Hazards Governance Practices and Floods (Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlewaite)
Natural Hazards Governance Practices and Key Natural Hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean (Ivis García)
Natural Hazards Identification and Hazard Management Systems (P. Patrick Leahy)
Non-Governmental Organizations and Natural Hazard Governance in Asia and the Pacific (Allison Rowlands and Benjamin Wisner)
Non-Governmental Organizations and Natural Hazard Governance in Latin America (Alonso Brenes, Benjamin Wisner, and Victor Marchezini)
Non-Governmental Organizations in Africa (Thomas Smucker, Benjamin Wisner, and Solomon Maingi)
Non-profit Sector Organizational Actions on Risk Reduction Practices, Policymaking Participation, Community and Social Contributions, Recovery (Grace Chikoto-Schultz, Yu Xiao, Paul Manson, and Maryam Amiri)

P
Performance Assessment of Natural Hazards Governance (Warren S. Eller and Michael S. Pennington)
Planning Systems for Natural Hazard Risk Reduction (James C. Schwab)
Policy Process Theory and Natural Hazards (Thomas A. Birkland)
Politics and Policies for Managing Natural Hazards (Rob A. DeLeo, Kristin Taylor O'Donovan, and Timothy Mulligan)
Post Disaster Housing Recovery (Anuradha Mukherji)
The Production of Natural Hazard Services by Public Agencies and Private Contractors in the United States (Alessandra Jerolleman)
The Production of Public Goods, Services, and Regulations for Natural Hazards (Benoy Jacob)
Public Administrators in Natural Hazards Governance (Scott E. Robinson and Warren S. Eller)
Public Participation in Planning for Community Management of Natural Hazards (Andrea Sarzynski and Paolo Cavaliere)
Public Private Partnerships and Natural Hazards Governance (Dane Egli)
Public Sector Agencies and Their Formal Legal and Administrative Responsibilities (Ashley D. Ross)
Public Sector Agency Choice of Policy Instruments Across Governance Systems (Beverly Cigler)

R
Resilient Cities (Abhilash Panda and Dilanthi Amaratunga)
Risk and Resilience in the Management and Governance of Natural Hazards (Christian Kuhlicke)
Risk Governance of Limited-Notice or No-Notice Natural Hazards (Maria Papathoma-Köhle and Dale Dominey-Howes)
Roles of Non-Government Organizations in Disaster Risk Reduction (Jonatan A. Lassa)

S
Scalar Politics in Flood Risk Management and Community Engagement (Thomas Thaler)
Social Capital and Natural Hazards Governance (Daniel P. Aldrich, Michelle A. Meyer, and Courtney M. Page-Tan)
Supporting Natural Hazards Management with Geospatial Technologies (Diana Mitsova)

T
Transboundary Disasters and Nongovernmental Organizations (Alka Sapat)
Tsunami Preparedness and Mitigation Strategies (James Goltz and Katsuya Yamori)

U
Urban Planning and Natural Hazards Governance (Martin Caceres, Camillo Boano, and Theresa Abrassart)


Topical Outline of Articles
Articles in the Encyclopedia are organized alphabetically. Articles in this outline are arranged under the following headings; please note that each article is listed here only once, but many articles could conceivably fit into two or more of the following categories:

Natural Hazards Governance: Foundational Concepts
Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management
Disaster Vulnerability and Disaster Resilience
Formal Political Institutions, Policy Development, and Policy Implementation
Private Sector, Community, and Non-Governmental Responses
Finance and Economic Aspects of Natural Hazards Governance
Assessing Natural Hazards Governance in Varied Political and Economic Contexts
Region and Country-Specific Governance Practices

Natural Hazards Governance: Foundational Concepts
Collective Choices Affecting Natural Hazards Governance, Risk, and Vulnerability (Thomas Thaler, David Shively, Jacob Petersen-Perlman, Lenka Slavikova, and Thomas Hartmann)
Natural Hazards Governance: An Overview of the Field (Thomas A. Birkland, introduction to volume)
Performance Assessment of Natural Hazards Governance (Warren S. Eller and Michael S. Pennington)
Public Private Partnerships and Natural Hazards Governance (Dane Egli)
Understanding and Analyzing Natural Hazards Governance (Brian J. Gerber, introduction to volume)

Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management
Corruption and the Governance of Disaster Risk (David Alexander)
Lessons on Risk Governance From the UNISDR Experience (Sálvano Briceño)
Managed retreat in practice: Mechanisms, opportunities, and challenges for implementation (Christina Hanna, Bruce Glavovic, and Iain White)
Natural Hazards Governance Practices and Floods (Daniel Henstra and Jason Thistlewaite)
Natural Hazards Identification and Hazard Management Systems (P. Patrick Leahy)
Planning Systems for Natural Hazard Risk Reduction (James C. Schwab)
The Production of Natural Hazard Services by Public Agencies and Private Contractors in the United States (Alessandra Jerolleman)
Risk and Resilience in the Management and Governance of Natural Hazards (Christian Kuhlicke)
Risk Governance of Limited-Notice or No-Notice Natural Hazards (Maria Papathoma-Köhle and Dale Dominey-Howes)
Roles of Non-Government Organizations in Disaster Risk Reduction (Jonatan A. Lassa)
Supporting Natural Hazards Management with Geospatial Technologies (Diana Mitsova)
Tsunami Preparedness and Mitigation Strategies (James Goltz and Katsuya Yamori)

Disaster Vulnerability and Disaster Resilience
Climate Change and Amplified Representations of Natural Hazards in Institutional Cultures (Scott Bremer, Paul Schneider, and Bruce Glavovic)
Collaboration and Cross-Sector Coordination for Humanitarian Assistance in a Disaster Recovery Setting (David Sanderson)
Disasters and Large-Scale Population Dislocations: International and National Responses (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Linking Hazard Vulnerability, Risk Reduction, and Institutionalized Choices (Jörn Birkmann and Joanna McMillan)
Managing Vulnerability During Natural Disasters: Language Access Services (Federico Marco Federici)
Post Disaster Housing Recovery (Anuradha Mukherji)
Resilient Cities (Abhilash Panda and Dilanthi Amaratunga)
Urban Planning and Natural Hazards Governance (Martin Caceres, Camillo Boano, and Theresa Abrassart)

Formal Political Institutions, Policy Development, and Policy Implementation
Agenda Setting and Natural Hazards (Rob A. DeLeo)
Bureaucratic Policymaking on Natural Hazards (Kristin Taylor O'Donovan)
Climate Change as a Transboundary Policymaking Natural Hazards Problem (Elizabeth Albright)
Democratic Policymaking and Community Hazards Management (Saundra Schneider)
Disaster and Emergency Planning for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (David Alexander)
Disaster Risk, Moral Hazard, and Public Policy (Thomas Husted and David Nickerson)
Executive and Legislative Competition over Natural Hazards Policies (Deserai A. Crow)
Natural Hazards and Voting Behavior (Olivier Rubin)
Policy Process Theory and Natural Hazards (Thomas A. Birkland)
Politics and Policies for Managing Natural Hazards (Rob A. DeLeo, Kristin Taylor O'Donovan, and Timothy Mulligan)
The Production of Public Goods, Services, and Regulations for Natural Hazards (Benoy Jacob)
Public Administrators in Natural Hazards Governance (Scott E. Robinson and Warren S. Eller)
Public Sector Agencies and Their Formal Legal and Administrative Responsibilities (Ashley D. Ross)
Public Sector Agency Choice of Policy Instruments Across Governance Systems (Beverly Cigler)
Scalar Politics in Flood Risk Management and Community Engagement (Thomas Thaler)

Private Sector, Community, and Non-Governmental Responses
Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (Rajib Shaw)
Global Overview of the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Natural Hazard Governance (Terry Gibson and Benjamin Wisner)
Integrating Access and Functional Needs in Community Planning for Natural Hazards (Nnenia Campbell)
Linking Risk Reduction and Community Resilience (Hyunjung Ji)
Non-profit Sector Organizational Actions on Risk Reduction Practices, Policymaking Participation, Community and Social Contributions, Recovery (Grace Chikoto-Schultz, Yu Xiao, Paul Manson, and Maryam Amiri)
Public Participation in Planning for Community Management of Natural Hazards (Andrea Sarzynski and Paolo Cavaliere)
Social Capital and Natural Hazards Governance (Daniel P. Aldrich, Michelle A. Meyer, and Courtney M. Page-Tan)
Transboundary Disasters and Nongovernmental Organizations (Alka Sapat)

Finance and Economic Aspects of Natural Hazards Governance
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Economic Resilience Actions (Adam Rose)
Economic and Business Recovery (Joanne Stevenson, Ilan Noy, Garry McDonald, Erica Seville, and John Vargo)
Financing Community Resilience Before Disaster Strikes: Lessons from the United States (Charlotte L. Kirschner, Akheil Singla, and Angie Flick)
Fiscal Implications of Managing Natural Disasters for National and Subnational Governments (Qing Miao)
Flood Insurance and Flood Risk Reduction (Swenja Surminski)
Funding Flows: Transboundary Considerations of Disaster Recovery (Anuradha Mukherji)
Natural Disaster Risk Financing and Transfer in ASEAN Countries (Paul Raschky and Sommarat Chantarat)

Assessing Natural Hazards Governance in Varied Political and Economic Contexts
Agency Coordination and Cross-Sector Collaboration in Fragile States (Abdul-Akeem Sadiq and Jenna Tyler)
Healthcare Challenges after Disasters in Lesser Developed Countries (Jan Reinhardt, Binhua Fu, and Joseph Balikuddembe)
Inter-Agency Collaboration for Natural Hazard Management in Developed Countries (Nibedita Ray-Bennett, Daniel Mendez, Edris Alam, and Christian Morgner)
Natural Hazards Governance in Democratic States with Developed Economies (Patrick Roberts)

Region and Country-Specific Governance Practices
Challenges for Natural Hazard and Risk Management in Mountain Regions of Europe (Margreth Keiler and Sven Fuchs)
Climate Adaptation Governance in Pakistan (Syed-Muhammad Ali, Akhtar Naeem Khan, and Hamna Shakeel)
Climate Change Adaptation in New Zealand (Paul Schneider and Bruce Glavovic)
Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adapation in South Asia (Mihir Bhatt, Ronak B. Patel, and Kelsey Gleason)
Involving people in informal settlements in NHG based on South African experience (Catherine Sutherland)
Multi-Level Environmental Governance in the European Union and United States (Colin Provost)
Natural Hazards and their Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa (D. van Niekerk and Livhuwani David Nemakonde)
Natural Hazards Governance in Algeria (Djillali Benouar)
Natural Hazards Governance in Australia (John Minnery and Iraphne Childs)
Natural Hazards Governance in Canada (Jack Lindsay)
Natural Hazards Governance in China (Timothy Sim and Jun Lei Yu)
Natural Hazards Governance in Cuba (Enrique A. Castellanos Abella and Benjamin Wisner)
Natural Hazards Governance in Germany (Mark Kammerbauer)
Natural Hazards Governance in India (Anshu Sharma and Sunny Kumar)
Natural Hazards Governance in Indonesia (Bevaola Kusumasari)
Natural Hazards Governance in Mexico (Elizabeth Mansilla)
Natural Hazards Governance in Nepal (Katie Oven)
Natural Hazards Governance in Nigeria (Steve I. Onu)
Natural Hazards Governance in Russia (Svetlana Badina and Boris Porfiriev)
Natural Hazards Governance in South Africa (D. van Niekerk, G.J. Wentink, and L.B. Shoroma)
Natural Hazards Governance in South Asia (Mihir Bhatt)
Natural Hazards Governance in the Philippines (Kanako Iuchi, Yasuhito Jibiki, Renato Solidum Jr., and Ramon Santiago)
Natural Hazards Governance in Turkey (H. P. Gülkan)
Natural Hazards Governance in Western Europe (Florian Roth and Timothy Prior)
Natural Hazards Governance Practices and Key Natural Hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean (Ivis García)
Non-Governmental Organizations and Natural Hazard Governance in Asia and the Pacific (Allison Rowlands and Benjamin Wisner)
Non-Governmental Organizations and Natural Hazard Governance in Latin America (Alonso Brenes, Benjamin Wisner, and Victor Marchezini)
Non-Governmental Organizations in Africa (Thomas Smucker, Benjamin Wisner, and Solomon Maingi)