Disaster Risk and Decision-Making
Disaster Risk and Decision-Making
- Jeroen WarnerJeroen WarnerWageningen University & Research
- and Art DewulfArt DewulfWageningen University and Research Center
Summary
Disasters call for rapid decision-making, with precious little time to select a course of action among several possible alternative options. Disaster risk decision-making is situated in the context of the shifting understandings of decision-making under uncertainty, intensified by climate change. Three research traditions are identified in decision-making: (a) classic analytical decision-making theories, (b) naturalistic decision-making (NDM) and sense-making, and (c) multiple streams and complexity approaches. Crisis decision-making and risk decision-making are increasingly becoming intertwined.
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Subjects
- Adaptation
- Policy and Governance
