Louise K. Comfort
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691165370
- eISBN:
- 9780691186023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691165370.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter provides a comparison across the set of 12 earthquake response systems, examining the degree of integration achieved between their internal capacity to adapt to an altered disaster ...
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This chapter provides a comparison across the set of 12 earthquake response systems, examining the degree of integration achieved between their internal capacity to adapt to an altered disaster environment for managing response operations, and their dependence on external resources, knowledge, and skills to implement coherent actions for response and recovery, based on analyses of External/Internal index values. Not surprisingly, the four subsets of earthquake response systems demonstrated capacity for adaptation to varying degrees, but importantly, the variance appeared not to depend on the presence of technical infrastructure alone. Nor did the variance depend on the robustness of the organizational infrastructure of planning and preparedness for a seismic event alone. Rather, the variance appeared to depend on the degree of integration of the technical infrastructure for communication into the organizational plans for seismic risk reduction. This integration of social/organizational planning with the advances of technical communications infrastructure produced a powerful vehicle for expanding communication and information exchange that creates a new pattern of building community resilience to disaster.Less
This chapter provides a comparison across the set of 12 earthquake response systems, examining the degree of integration achieved between their internal capacity to adapt to an altered disaster environment for managing response operations, and their dependence on external resources, knowledge, and skills to implement coherent actions for response and recovery, based on analyses of External/Internal index values. Not surprisingly, the four subsets of earthquake response systems demonstrated capacity for adaptation to varying degrees, but importantly, the variance appeared not to depend on the presence of technical infrastructure alone. Nor did the variance depend on the robustness of the organizational infrastructure of planning and preparedness for a seismic event alone. Rather, the variance appeared to depend on the degree of integration of the technical infrastructure for communication into the organizational plans for seismic risk reduction. This integration of social/organizational planning with the advances of technical communications infrastructure produced a powerful vehicle for expanding communication and information exchange that creates a new pattern of building community resilience to disaster.
Gillian Doyle
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748698233
- eISBN:
- 9781474416122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748698233.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Although from the moment the Film Council was set up, it was clear that the intention was to found an organisation focused on bringing ‘sustainability’ to the British film industry, the Council ...
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Although from the moment the Film Council was set up, it was clear that the intention was to found an organisation focused on bringing ‘sustainability’ to the British film industry, the Council gradually retreated from this term in favour of a wider set of priorities and the way in which it articulated its mission also gradually shifted. Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with senior politicians, film executives, independent producers, industry experts and leading filmmakers, this chapter examines the key players, forces and assumptions which drove the Film Council’s agenda, how the weighting of priorities shifted over time and why the Council’s sense of mission changed over its lifetime.Less
Although from the moment the Film Council was set up, it was clear that the intention was to found an organisation focused on bringing ‘sustainability’ to the British film industry, the Council gradually retreated from this term in favour of a wider set of priorities and the way in which it articulated its mission also gradually shifted. Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with senior politicians, film executives, independent producers, industry experts and leading filmmakers, this chapter examines the key players, forces and assumptions which drove the Film Council’s agenda, how the weighting of priorities shifted over time and why the Council’s sense of mission changed over its lifetime.
