Strengthening External Emergency Assistance for Managing Extreme Events, Systemic, and Transboundary Risks in Asia

Abstract: External emergency assistance (EEA) provided in the aftermath of a disaster has costs and benefits to the donor and recipient countries. Donors benefit from quick recovery feedback effects from the trade and cultural links, and recipient countries have additional resources to manage the emergency. However, EEA costs could outweigh the benefits. Costs include dependency, low development of risk reduction capacity, and staff burdened with managing the assistance as opposed to managing the recovery. Current efforts to reduce dependency on EEA are not sufficient; they are based on limited past experiences with extreme events and are not based on the understanding of future risks. In this article, we present the concept of a climate fragility risk index showing factors that affect a country’s predisposition to be fragile to climate change threats and we suggest that countries with a high climate fragility risk index tend to depend on EEA. Further, the article presents the concept of cri

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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Politics and Governance ; 9 (2021) 4 ; 27-42

Classification
Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(when)
2021
Creator
Prabhakar, Sivapuram Venkata Rama Krishna
Tamura, Kentaro
Okano, Naoyuki
Ikeda, Mariko

DOI
10.17645/pag.v9i4.4457
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022101517030686576459
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Prabhakar, Sivapuram Venkata Rama Krishna
  • Tamura, Kentaro
  • Okano, Naoyuki
  • Ikeda, Mariko
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Time of origin

  • 2021

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