Natural Hazards and Public Management - Governing Climate Adaptation

This open access book examines how policymakers respond to natural  hazards in the wake of global climate change. Through a series of five  case studies it assesses how changing patterns of natural hazards  collide with established patterns of spatial planning, and how alternative strategies could be operationalised in local policy practice. Due to global warming, wildfires and floods are occurring in regions where they had previously been virtually unknown. Yet local public policy for immediate protection against natural  azards has remained at the margins of both public and scholarly attention. The book argues that when it comes to the containment and mitigation of natural hazards as the consequence of climate change, effective prevention requires accurate anticipation of impacts, appropriate policy settings, and the mobilization of administrative skill.

List of contents

1: Introduction: Natural Hazards and Government Response.- 2: Recent Victorian Bushfires and Extreme Events.- 3: The 2018 East Attica Wildfire.- 4: The 2018 California Camp Fire.- 
5: The 2013 La Plata Flood.- 6: The 2021 Floods in Western Germany.- 7: Conclusion.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jana Blahak (Editor), Andrew Butt (Editor), Andrew Butt et al (Editor), Michael Buxton (Editor), Wolfgang Seibel (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.11.2025
• EAN: 9783031982569
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3198256-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Illustrations: Approx. 270 p. 25 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Politics and business; Naturkatastrophen, Public Management, Open Access, Public Policy, spatial planning, Natural disasters, Natural Hazards, Government failure