Expanding the disaster risk management framework: Measuring the constructed level of national identity as a factor of political risk
Journal: Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
Year: 2016

Political risk is identified as a dominant risk category of disaster risk management (DRM) which could negatively affect the success of those measures implemented to reduce disaster risk. Key to political risk is the construct of national identity which, if poorly constructed, could greatly contribute to political risk. This article proposed a tool to measure the construct of national identity and to provide recommendations to strengthen the construct in order to mitigate the exacerbating influe