Implementing innovations in disaster management to increase resilience - laws, policies, and organizational determinants / submitted by Maike Vollmer. Wuppertal, 2021
Content
Declaration
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Zusammenfassung
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.1.1 Changing challenges
1.1.2 Innovations in disaster management to increase resilience
1.1.3 Laws, policies, and organizational factors affecting innovation activities
1.2 Related previous research
1.3 Research question and objectives
1.4 Terminology
1.5 Structure of the thesis
2 Disaster management in the EU
3 Methodology
4 Results of literature-based analysis
4.1 Process description: Identification of a first set of determinants
4.2 Private vs. public sector determinants
4.2.1 Relevant results from studies addressing the private sector
4.2.2 Innovation determinants in the public sector
4.2.3 Specificities of disaster management organizations
4.3 Laws, policies, and organizational innovation determinants in disaster management
4.4 Summary of literature-based analysis
5 Results of expert interviews
5.1 Selection of example innovations and experts for interviews
5.1.1 Identification of implemented innovations
5.1.2 Selection of innovations
5.1.3 Selection of experts
5.2 Process description: evaluation of interview results
5.3 Innovation A: National crisis management system
5.4 Innovation B: Staff unit on Research and Innovation management
5.5 Innovation C: Innovation cluster
5.6 Innovation D: Cooperative control center
5.7 Innovation E: Compatible disaster management IT system
5.8 Innovation F: Drone
5.9 Innovation G: Warning system
6 Consolidation of results
6.1 Evaluation of the first set of determinants
6.2 Evaluation of additional aspects identified in the expert interviews
6.3 Summary and new set of determinants
7 Discussion of results
8 Recommendations & Outlook
References
Annex: Interview guideline
Short CV of the author