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Collaborative Mechanisms among Governments in Disaster Management: Intergovernmental Communications during the Great East Japan Earthquake

Asian Review of Public Administration

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Title Collaborative Mechanisms among Governments in Disaster Management: Intergovernmental Communications during the Great East Japan Earthquake
 
Creator Kawai, Koichi; Waseda University
 
Subject public administration, governance, local governance
intergovernmental communications, local government collaboration, network communication
 
Description The aim of this article is to explore how the municipalities of the areas damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake obtained the information resources required for their disaster response and restoration activities. The unprecedented scale of this catastrophe prevented the communication channels that had been hierarchically constructed between the national governments, prefectures and municipalities from functioning as planned, and the municipal governments in the damaged areas were unable to, or took time to, obtain the information resources necessary to initiate restoration activities. Under such restricted circumstances, how did they finally collect and transmit the information required? The article concludes that the proactive approach of each local government to tap and open what are described here as “network communication channels” made that happen.
 
Publisher Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA)
 
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Date 2016-03-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

descriptive analysis, interview, literature review
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.sfu.ca/arpa/index.php/arpa/article/view/37
 
Source Asian Review of Public Administration; Vol 24, No 1-2 (2013): Public Consultation, Civic Engagement and Disaster Management; 64-75
2094-408X
2094-408X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sfu.ca/arpa/index.php/arpa/article/view/37/35
 
Coverage Japan
2011, 21st century

 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Koichi Kawai
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0