Disasters have been one of the most important problem of humanity throughout history due to loss of lives and damages to the economic and social structure. It’s an interdisciplinary phenomenon that needs to be addressed in the literature with its physical, cultural, economic and social aspects and a policy area nedds to be managed in the governements agenda. Disasters, in their most general definition, are physical phenomenon that have damaging and destructive effects on societies and they caused by human activities as well as nature. The main reasons for the widening of the impact area and the increasing social cost of these physical facts which have damaging and destructive effects are the policy and planning decisions. In this respect, even if the source of disasters is natural, the results are produced by human. The extent of the impacts of disasters and the widening of the impact area have led to developments in disaster policies and disaster management. The crisis management approach like emergency support mechanisms which aims to compensate the damage after disaster is being replaced the risk management approach. Its main reason is economic and social cost of recovering damages is higher than prevent them. On the other hand, both prevalance of disasters at global level and the diversification of the causes of disasters have brought a change in risk perception. As a result of this, redefined risk concept and risk management process has started to be implemented as the main approach in disaster policies. This study aims to reveal the importance of risk management approach in disaster policies by considerin the relationship between disaster and risk concepts and how risk management is addressed in disaster legislation as one of the implementation tools of disaster policies in Turkey.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Law in Context, Public Administration |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | May 17, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 |
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