Risk Management in East Asia: An Introduction

Abstract

This chapter, as the introduction of the book, treats risk management as a multidimensional governance challenge in need of comprehensive and coordinated responses from all governance actors. It provides a brief review of East Asian risk management systems and frontiers by looking at practices and developments of China, Japan, and South Korea, and discusses the coordination and cooperation among the three countries in risk management. The chapter also offers a brief summary of the following nine chapters.