Abstract
AbstractThis chapter presents the analysis of five decades of the development planning history of Pakistan. Disaster management was highly centralised and skewed towards the response and relief phases of the disaster management cycle. Before the 2005 earthquake, Pakistan did not have a single federal organisation for disaster management with a multi-hazard approach. The 2005 earthquake was a lesson-producing event for the whole nation and the government in terms of renewed awareness of disaster preparedness and the mitigation of other hazards beyond flooding. Despite a paradigm shift from a flood-based and highly centralised contingency disaster risk approach to a multi-hazard and integrated disaster policy incorporating a broad range of stakeholders in disaster management, the disaster management structure is marred by myopic and ad hoc tendencies, which override objectivity and hinder the stable progression towards mitigation of climate change effects and a reduction in vulnerability in a hazard-prone Pakistan.
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