Disaster governance in urbanising Asia. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michelle Ann Miller, Mike Douglass, editors.
• Editors: Miller, Michelle Ann, 1974-; Douglass, Mike
• Contents: Chapter 1: Disaster Governance in an Urbanising World Region -- Chapter 2: The Urban Transition of Disaster Governance in Asia -- Chapter 3: Building Cities in a Subduction Zone: Some Indonesian Dangers -- Chapter 4: Muddy Resistance: Community Empowerment in Mudflow Disaster Governance in Porong, Sidoarjo, Indonesia -- Chapter 5: Disaster Governance in War-Torn Societies: Tsunami Recovery in Urbanising Aceh and Sri Lanka.- Chapter 6: Disaster Governance in Small Urban Places: Issues, Trends, and Concerns.- Chapter 7: "Good" Time For Disaster: The Importance of Temporality in Governance Thinking -- Chapter 8: Intergenerational Transmission of Local Knowledge towards River Flooding Risk Reduction and Adaptation: The Experience of Dagupan City, Philippines -- Chapter 9: Securing the Safety of Informal Settler Families along Waterways in Metro Manila, Philippines: A Government-Civil Society Organisation Partnership -- Chapter 10: Bangkok and the Floods of 2011: Urban Governance and the Struggle for Democratisation -- Chapter 11: Is it Possible to Integrate Disaster Governance into Urbanisation? -- Evidence from Chinese Townships Hit by 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and 2013 Lushan Earthquake -- Chapter 12: Post-Disaster Reconstruction Models: The Governance of Urban Disasters in China, Iran and Myanmar -- Chapter 13: Nuclear Risk Governance in Japan and the Fukushima Triple Disaster: Lessons Unlearned.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 363.34095; Disaster relief -- Government policy -- Asia; Environmental disasters -- Government policy -- Asia; Emergency management -- Government policy -- Asia; Rural-urban migration -- Asia; Disaster relief -- Government policy; Emergency management -- Government policy; Rural-urban migration; Social Sciences; Human Geography; Public Administration; Urbanism; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789812876492; 9812876499; 9812876480; 9789812876485
• Related ISBNs: 9789812876485; 9812876480
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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