Responsibility and liability in emergency management to natural disasters: A Canadian example

Raikes, Jonathan; McBean, Gordon

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.01.004

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“…Since 2015, home insurance thus increasingly also includes protection against inland flooding caused by riverine, creek or lake overflow and heavy rainfall, although it is limited to properties outside high-risk floodplains; coastal flood insurance remains unavailable. Take-up of household insurance is low: estimates suggest a rate of 10-15% (Raikes and McBean, 2016;Nadarajah, 2016;IBC, 2017a). Earthquake insurance may be purchased in addition to standard home insurance, with higher deductibles than for other perils.…”

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Fiscal Resilience to Natural Disasters

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“…Raikes & McBean argue that a lack of standards in emergency management legislation, restrictive access to financial assistance and/or compensation and reduced government exposure to civil liability a common law expose private land owners to greater vulnerability to disasters and the liability attached [16].…”

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Analysis of Permanent Housing Built after Disaster: Van (Turkey)

Öztaş

Akkaya

2019

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In 2011, 644 people passed away after two earthquakes struck the city of Van, located in eastern Turkey. Houses collapsed or were rendered uninhabitable. Thousands of people became homeless. In response, the government built 17 489 units of permanent housing in a standard size and type. This study determined a more effective housing allocation for earthquake victims by considering the types of households (one-person households, one-family households, extended-family households and multi-person, no family households) and the total available housing area as allotted by the government's relief building budget. The Analytic Hierarchy Process was used to prioritize home features for each type of household. These results showed that housing size tailored to household need was more important than price, location or design. Mathematical modeling was then used to identify housing space allocations that would serve family needs better than a uniform building approach.

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“…As Raikes and McBean (2016) explain, privatising aspects of emergency management that have shown to be related to inefficient government administration enables government to avoid legal responsibility. The privatisation of responsibility and re-regulation in support of market mechanisms has the potential to generate what Prudham (2004;cited by O'Reilly & Dhanju, 2012) refers to as 'normal accidents of neoliberalism', whereby risks are produced systemically in what he calls 'organised' (and to which could be added 'normalised') 'irresponsibility'.…”

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Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges

Jones

Vasvani

2017

Environmental Hazards

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Citation: Jones, Samantha and Vasvani, Vishal (2017) Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges. Environmental Hazards, 16 (4 Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University's research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.)Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges The adoption and enforcement of building codes is considered the most effective tool in safeguarding lives and property against earthquakes. There would appear to be a vital regulatory role for government in the enforcement of building codes, but this is somewhat at odds with the neoliberal agenda of 'rolling back the state'. This paper explores constraints to the implementation of building codes in the context of changing roles and responsibilities of local authorities in Bihar in India. In-depth interviews were conducted with key stakeholders across major urban centres in north Bihar. Some factors, such as: code complexity; competition between the public and private sectors for qualified personnel; and low public risk perception were found to be less significant in Bihar than has been noted elsewhere, while other factors such as: the cost of earthquake-resistant measures; political interests; corrupt practices; and lack of government capacity were important. Additional factors were also revealed by the research, some of which are exacerbated by the neoliberal climate of urban governance. While the recent 2014 byelaws represent an improvement in the system and a degree of re-regulation, ambiguities create opportunities for failures arising from 'normalised irresponsibility'.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Responsibility and liability in emergency management to natural disasters: A Canadian example

Cited by 37 publications

References 8 publications

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Fiscal Resilience to Natural Disasters

Analysis of Permanent Housing Built after Disaster: Van (Turkey)

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