Recent Developments and Trends in Policy, Implementation, and Perceptions
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 14 pages, pdf Description: Various Georgian government administrations have attempted to respond to natural disasters in these mountain regions, from the Soviet authorities in the 1980s through to the present Saakashvili administration. Although in the early and mid 1980s, the process of resettlement was fairly well organised, the late 1980s brought a serious increase of natural disasters in Georgia‟s mountain regions, which coincided with the breakdown of Soviet structures to address the growing needs.