Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific
Agency and Resilience
A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world's most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating impact of disasters is a pressing task for local actors.This book takes a regional, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to improve understandings of how various actors respond to natural and human-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the ideas and activities of four different categories of agents: civil society; military and state institutions; local cultu…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Jurriëns, Edwin (Hrsg.) / Zhang, Jian (Hrsg.) / Thornton, Alec (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-134-65725-4
- EAN: 9781134657254
- Produktnummer: 16945754
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'537 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 3 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Minako Sakai is Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian Social Inquiry, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.Edwin Jurriëns is Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne and Visiting Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.Jian Zhang is Senior Lecturer in Political Science in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. Alec Thornton is Senior Lecturer in Geography, School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.
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