Stakeholder Network Influences on Local-Level Hazard Mitigaiton Planning Outputs
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Lyles, Lindsey Ward
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
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- Economic losses from natural hazards have increased dramatically and climate change is expected to exacerbate underlying hazard risks. There is widespread consensus that development in hazardous locations as a major cause of increased losses and land use approaches to guide people and property to safer locations are the most effective long-term ways to mitigate long-term hazard risks (e.g. Mileti 1999). Since passage of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA), local governments are required to adopt hazard mitigation plans developed by networks of stakeholders through planning processes typically led by emergency managers and sometimes including local planners. This new inter-governmental policy framework offers an unique opportunity to examine 1) factors leading to greater use of land use approaches to mitigate hazards and 2) the influence of planners embedded in stakeholder networks in which they are rarely the central, coordinating stakeholder. This dissertation explores the role of planning networks in fostering shared understandings and joint problem-solving through participatory mitigation planning processes. This study employs a mixed method approach and draws on the concepts, theories and analytical tools of Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach. Plan quality data generated from content analysis of local mitigation plans for 175 coastal jurisdictions in six states were combined with secondary data sources to model the relationship of involvement of local planners to hazard mitigation plan quality. Four cases studies were conducted to examine the influence of hazard mitigation stakeholder networks on land use-related plan quality and implementation. The case studies drew on primary data collected from hazard mitigation stakeholder surveys, interviews, and in-person visits, as well as document review and secondary data. Regression model findings indicate statistically significant positive relationships between involvement of local planners and incorporation of more land use approaches. Case study findings show that stronger bonding connections between emergency managers and local planners have contributed to greater incorporation of land use approaches. The case study findings also indicate that network structures with a balance of bonding and bridging connections have contributed to greater incorporation of land use approaches than more hierarchical network structures. Research recommendations and policy recommendations are provided.
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- December 2012
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- Berke, Philip
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- Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 2012
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- February 13, 2015
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