Citation

Córdova M, Menoscal J, Flores EM. Disasters 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/disa.12561

PMID

36052656

Abstract

Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most threatened regions by natural events owing to the highly vulnerable situations of its urban centres. For that reason, every so often its cities are affected by one or more disasters, thereby exposing their problems of governance and public policy in relation to risk management. The aim of this research is to investigate the factors that influence the design of post-disaster policies. We hypothesize that in those countries with modes of governance that demonstrate a greater articulation between state and non-state actors, the design of public policies tends to be more coherent among the government instruments or resources and the objectives of the policy.

METHODologically we propose a comparative analysis of post-disaster policies in three countries of the region affected by earthquakes: Haiti (2010), Chile (2010) and Ecuador (2016). The results show that in the Chilean case, through co-governance, there are optimal post-disaster policies, while in the cases of Haiti and Ecuador, with hierarchical governance, there are unsuccessful and misdirected post-disaster policies respectively.

Language: en

Keywords

modes of governance; policy design; post-disaster policies; public policy