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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Disaster studies"
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Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
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:Yi Kang

This book shows how Chinese officials have responded to popular and international pressure, while at the same time seeking to preserve their own careers, in the context of disaster management. Using the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as a case study, it illustrates how authoritarian regimes are creating new governance mechanisms in response to the changing global environment and what challenges they …

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9783662445167
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xvii, 126 pages
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363.348
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Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience
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Anthony Masys

The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain. The contributions to this book focus on resilience thinking along 4 broad themes: Urban Domain; Cyber Domain; Organizational/Social domain; and Socio-ecological domain. This book would serve as a valuable reference for courses o…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319088198
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xvi, 338 pages
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363.348