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