Title:	The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management
Authors:	Simon Hollis
Keywords:	A Strategy for Global Resilience
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book addresses these issues by examining why states have chosen to cooperate on DRM through regional organizations. Understanding what motivates states to cooperate on regional DRM provides us with important insights on the anticipated role of regional organizations. 3 That is, what states aim to collectively achieve as reflected in regional framework agreements and strategies on risk management. At first glance it would seem that states are motivated by a clear, rational-based logic. In a highly interdependent and globalized world, a major flood, volcanic eruption or earthquake can easily transgress political boundaries, disrupt important trade routes and damage tightly knit economies. The continual increase in the frequency of weather-related disasters – a phenomenon that is increasingly connected to the effects of climate change (Stern, 2006; Field et al., 2012) – only increases the urgency for forming collective insurance regimes against the disruptive forces produced by natural hazards. States presumably cooperate through regional organizations to produce a common public good to reduce the loss of social and economic capital (see Rhinard, Hollis and Boin, 2012). Indeed, many regional DRM agreements legitimize collective cooperation on this very basis (see ASEAN, 2005a; PIF, 2005; LAS, 2011) and often emphasize the general rise in economic damages incurred through disasters (OAS, 2005c; SADC, 2009; Georgieva, 2010a). These are standard, rational and logical motivations that provide important insights into why states would cooperate through regional organizations. The role of regional organizations is clear: it provides an additional layer of protection for the state. A role that is predominantly formed from functional demand in a set of geographically defined states.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/49861
ISBN:	978-1-137-43930-7
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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