Natural and Technological Disasters: Capacity Building and Human Resource Development for Disaster Management: Concept Paper

Risk and disaster are dynamic and changing. The concepts and theories, empirical realities, and management challenges and options that exist with regard to risk and disaster change commensurately. These changes provide the context within which decisions on the scope, orientation, content and strategic parameters of future capacity building and human resource development must be decided. As the context and challenges change so do the parameters and priority actions required for achieving successful capacity building.