Adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction

January 2024

“…These principles focused attention on the existing strengths of the community and highlighted the need for additional measures to promote safety and inclusion. The initiative loosely relied on adaptive management principles (Bixler et al 2023) including building a local theory of change. While no age restrictions were placed on people's participation, few young people attended.…”

Adaptive Governance of Disaster Preparedness? The Case of Regional Networks in Finland

“…a According to Bixler et al [13], the concept of resilience is an essential link between disaster risk reduction and AG. There are different ways to conceptualise resilience [45].…”

“…As Cleaver and Whaley [12] point out, AG is only a theoretical approach to governing socioecological systems, and it tends to be fundamentally optimistic about reaching consensus between different interests and not paying attention to power structures. Furthermore, the complexity arising from polycentric institutions may also reduce democratic accountability [13]. The practical implementation of AG is complicated by path dependency: changing established practices fundamentally is difficult, and especially, public participation requires plenty of resources and is tricky to implement in an equal way [13].…”

“…Furthermore, the complexity arising from polycentric institutions may also reduce democratic accountability [13]. The practical implementation of AG is complicated by path dependency: changing established practices fundamentally is difficult, and especially, public participation requires plenty of resources and is tricky to implement in an equal way [13]. Successful implementation of AG is linked to factors such as trust, equality, good governance, and adequate resources, which are seldomly readily available [11,13].…”

“…It has been widely recognized that AG has much to contribute to disaster risk reduction, as during the recent past, the emphasis has shifted from centralized disaster management to anticipatory and networked governance [13][14][15]. AG is already applied to disaster risk reduction around the world, but practices and concepts used differ [13]. AG has also been proposed as a framework especially for governing compound hazards and complex industrial disasters [16,17].…”