Date of Award

1-1-2011

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Organizational Unit

Josef Korbel School of International Studies

First Advisor

Timothy Sisk, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Jing Sun

Third Advisor

Joseph Szyliowicz

Keywords

Disaster, Governance, Recovery

Abstract

Catastrophic natural disasters remain a constant and recurring mortal threat to people around the world. Since prevention of the events themselves is impossible, it is important to examine those factors which can reduce the loss of life and enable successful recovery. We intuitively expect good governance to be one of these factors. This paper discusses the concepts of governance and long-term disaster recovery and the difficulties inherent in numerically capturing these qualities. It explores the correlation between governance indicators and three development and economic measurements of recovery. Three case studies are used to qualitatively and anecdotally address the topic.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Susan C. Paganelli

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

87 p.

Discipline

International relations, Political Science, Public policy

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