Policy and Public Management on Earthquakes

Abstract

Disasters are the result of the emergence of an extraordinary event (hazard) in a vulnerable community so that the community cannot cope with the various implications of the extraordinary event. Policy is the recognition or acknowledgment that a disaster is a public threat. By establishing a disaster as a public threat, policy makers must set a priority scale considering the scarcity of resources. The existence of public policies and management can provide solutions, ways of dealing with disasters that come