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1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) |
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Future-Proofing the State; Foreword; Contributors; Part 1: Governing for the Future; 1. Governing for the Future while Meeting the Challenges of Today; 2. The Role of Government in Future-Proofing Society; 3. Foreseeable Shocks and the Critical Challenges Facing Humanity in the Twenty-First Century; 4. Governments Fit for the Future: Lessons in building resilience; 5. Governing for the Future: What governments can do; 6. Do Governments Suffer from Political Myopia: What is the problem and what can be done about it? |
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7. Policy Disasters Waiting to Happen: When predictable disasters flow from government decisions8. Building and Maintaining Trust in Public Institutions: Is this possible?; Part 2: Managing Risks and Building Resilence; 9. Lessons for Government in Minimising Risk: What can the public service learn from the private sector?; 10. Risk Responses, Emergency Management and Community Resilience in the Aftermath of the Recent Victorian Natural Disasters; 11. Understanding Resilience and Reducing Future Vulnerabilities in Social-Ecological Systems |
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12. Improving Resilience through Environmental Scanning in Western Australia13. Environmental Scanning Processes in Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads; 14. Resilience in its Historical and Contemporary Contexts; Part 3: Managing Crises; 15. Managing Crises Long Term: The challenges of preparedness and response; 16. The Public Service in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: Future-proof or future shock?; Part 4: Disaster Recovery; 17. Disaster Recovery: The particular governance challenges generated by large-scale natural disasters |
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18. Missing the Opportunity to Promote Community Resilience? The Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry19. The Role of Post-Disaster Institutions in Recovery and Resilience: A comparative study of three recent disasters; 20. Governing the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, 2010-2011: The debate over institutional design; 21. Seismic Shifts: The Canterbury earthquakes and public sector innovation; 22. Examining the Public Sector's Responses to the Canterbury Earthquakes; Name Index; Subject Index |
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Forecasting.
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Precautionary principle.
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Crisis management.
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Emergency management.
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Political planning.
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Strategic planning.
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Geopolitics.
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Forecasting
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geopolitics.
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Crisis management
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Emergency management
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Forecasting
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Geopolitics
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Political planning
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Precautionary principle
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Strategic planning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boston, Jonathan, 1957- editor.
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Wanna, John, editor
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Pritchard, Justin, editor
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Lipski, Vic, editor
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| ISBN |
1925021521 |
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1925021513 |
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9781925021516 |
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9781925021523 |
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