Titlebook: Disaster Policy Implementation; Managing Programs un Peter J. May,Walter Williams Book 1986 Plenum Press, New York 1986 Governance.Nation.P

Fluctuate

Crisis Relocation Planningte nor the diversions of effort were deemed substantial enough by FEMA officials to undermine the overall program. However, federal officials were faced with the problem of deciding how to respond to worrisome erosion in the partnership.

手段

Disaster Policy in Perspectivef a governor can declare a catastrophe a major disaster. That declaration starts the flow of federal funds and an intense period of combined federal, state, local, and private effort to put lives and property back together.

Obedient

The Organizational Contextonal and management terms. The unseen hand of relatively large scale bureaucracy looms over individual programs as a factor potentially shaping the management choices and behavior that we consider in our case studies.

Painstaking

Floodplain Regulation act, flooding still remains a noteworthy hazard in this country. Floods account for some 70 percent of presidential declarations of major disasters, with the current value of flood-related property damage and losses estimated to amount to some $3 billion per year (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1980).

Judicious

Dam Safety Mobilization25 deaths. The 1976 Teton Dam collapse resulted in 11 deaths and some $1 billion worth of damages. In total, between 1970 and 1980 dam failures and related flooding resulted in some 500 deaths and $2 billion worth of losses and damage (U.S.Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works,1983,33–34).

持续

Earthquake Preparedness Collaborationited States Geological Survey (1984a, 3), since the turn of the century earthquakes in the United States have resulted in some 1,400 deaths and have caused more than $5 billion in property damage (1979 dollars).

未完成

research interests concerning federal program implementation and management. May brought to the research task both a familiarity with the broad issues of federal disaster policy-having recently completed a book (May, 1985) about disaster relief policy and politics-and an understanding of the day-to

POINT

,„Best Practice“-Risikomanagementsysteme, an examination of the different ways in which governments share functions. These are framed in this chapter as a typology of modes of shared governance. In addition, we introduce the more particular considerations that previous implementation studies suggest are important influences upon intergovernmental program implementation.