Scalar politics in Philippine urban disaster management: reframing metropolitan governance for local resilience and sustainability

Abstract: Globally, cities are fast becoming the locus of initiatives for building urban resilience and local sustainability. However, imperatives for integration in disaster risk management amid boundary-transcending disasters in urban agglomerations and metropolitan regions, spur new contentions with regards to what constitutes as a responsive construction of the geographic scale and functional scope of the local, particularly in decentralized regimes. This paper assesses the relevance of the Philippines’ current framing of the local jurisdictions, as well as prevailing metropolitan governance arrangements and reform agenda, whether these are responsive to managing disaster variability and their required scales for integrated interventions. Specifically examining the case of urban flooding and management in the country’s major metropolitan regions - Metro Manila, Metro Cebu and Metro Davao – the study identifies the pitfalls of current frameworks of metropolitan disaster governance across .... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2842

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Scalar politics in Philippine urban disaster management: reframing metropolitan governance for local resilience and sustainability ; volume:72 ; number:4 ; year:2018 ; Erdkunde ; 72, Heft 4 (2018)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Gera, Weena

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2018.04.03
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281743549.150439305418
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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