@article {bnh-3407,
	title = {Addressing challenges for future strategic-level emergency management: reframing, networking and capacity building},
	journal = {Disasters},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2016},
	month = {05/2016},
	pages = {306-323},
	chapter = {306},
	abstract = {<p><span>The mounting frequency and intensity of natural hazards, alongside growing interdependencies between social-technical and ecological systems, are placing increased pressure on emergency management. This is particularly true at the strategic level of emergency management, which involves planning for and managing non-routine, high-consequence events. Drawing on the literature, a survey, and interviews and workshops with Australia{\textquoteright}s senior emergency managers, this paper presents an analysis of five core challenges that these pressures are creating for strategic-level emergency management. It argues that emphasising {\textquoteleft}emergency management{\textquoteright} as a primary adaptation strategy is a retrograde step that ignores the importance of addressing socio-political drivers of vulnerabilities. Three key suggestions are presented that could assist the country{\textquoteright}s strategic-level emergency management in tackling these challenges: (i) reframe emergency management as a component of disaster risk reduction rather than them being one and the same; (ii) adopt a network governance approach; and (iii) further develop the capacities of strategic-level emergency managers.</span></p>},
	doi = {10.1111/disa.12196},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/disa.12196/abstract},
	author = {Karyn Bosomworth and Owen, Christine and Steve Curnin}
}
