PROMPT-While Tierney (2012) offers a fairly neutral assessment, Ahrens and Rudolph (2006) Download Ahrens and Rudolph (2006) discuss governance in a less flattering light: they argue that poor institutional arrangements and poor governance lead to ineffective risk reduction and poor disaster management.
How do you assess the Ahrens and Rudolph argument – including how they think bad governance can be overcome?
Would you say they are over-stating or under-stating the challenges for governing disasters and risk reduction?
Does what Tierney (2012) have to say about hazards governance suggest the Ahrens and Rudolph (2006) argument is fairly accurate or inaccurate — and
why?
