Overview
- Includes a unique combination of leading practitioners and academics
- Contains chapters addressing a variety of high profile events, taking place in a diverse mix of countries across the Asia-Pacific region
- Represents a unique collaboration between two of the world’s premier schools of public policy: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and Harvard Kennedy School
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Emergency Response and Humanitarian Relief
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Recovery and Resilience
Reviews
“The book Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific presents a synopsis of contemporary risk-management thinking in the Asia-Pacific. … Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific is well organized, concise and easy to navigate. … this book will be of interest to those involved in disaster risk-management activities throughout the Asia-Pacific.” (Thomas W. Haase, Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. XL (1), September, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
Book Subtitle: Policy and Governance
Editors: Caroline Brassard, Arnold M. Howitt, David W. Giles
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55157-7
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55156-0Published: 03 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56199-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55157-7Published: 18 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 203
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Management