Institutional resilience and disaster governance: How countries respond to Black Swan events

In a worldwide hazard environment exacerbated by the effects of climate change and the increasing interconnectedness of built and social systems, disasters are becoming more frequent, more destructive, and locally more variegated. Yet some communities are more disaster resilient than others. What ex...

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Published in:Progress in disaster science 2024-04, Vol.22, p.100329, Article 100329
Main Authors: Woodall, Brian, Amekudzi-Kennedy, Adjo, Inchauste, Maya Orthous, Sundararajan, Samyuthka, Medina, Adrian, Smith, Simrill, Popp, Kathryn
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Language:English
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Black swan
Disaster governance
Institution
Institutional resilience
Resilience
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Summary:In a worldwide hazard environment exacerbated by the effects of climate change and the increasing interconnectedness of built and social systems, disasters are becoming more frequent, more destructive, and locally more variegated. Yet some communities are more disaster resilient than others. What explains this? This study employs institutional resilience as a lens through which to compare the responses to large-scale disasters taken by Australia, Japan, and The Netherlands, three affluent democracies with distinctive institutional arrangements. In so doing, we use the Swan Matrix as a yardstick for gauging the adaptive capacity of different systems of disaster governance. By focusing on human efforts to build resilience, we draw attention to contextual factors, particularly the type of institutional arrangement, which, our observations suggest, shape disaster governance. We conclude with a call for further comparative research into the major disaster governance systems in a hazard environment in which large-scale disasters are becoming commonplace. •How do different countries respond to Black Swan events?•Why are some countries markedly more resilient than other broadly similar countries when disaster strikes?•What is the role of human agency in disaster response and mitigation?•How can institutional resilience serve as an analytic tool in disaster governance?•Are different institutional arrangements for disaster mitigation linked to particular systems of disaster governance?
ISSN:2590-0617
2590-0617
DOI:10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100329