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Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters: Community Ties, Market Mechanisms, and Governance
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- Daniel P Aldrich
- Springer
- Paperback
- 9784431564027
- 9.21 X 6.14 X 0.78 inches
- 1.16 pounds
- Business & Economics > International - Economics & Trade
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience. Going beyond narrow approaches that are all too prevalent in the field, this work builds on an optimum combination of community-level networks, private market mechanisms and state-based assistance strategies. Its chapters describe best practices in the field and elucidate cutting-edge research on recovery, highlighting the interaction between government, industry and civil society. The book uses new data from a number of recent disasters across southeast and east Asia to understand the interactions among residents, the state, and catastrophe, drawing on events in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, China and Thailand. Grounded in theories of risk mitigation and empirical research, the book provides practical guidance for decision makers along with future research directions for scholars.
The Asian region is highly prone to natural disasters which devastate large and mostly poor populations. This book deals with some of the root issues underlying the continued vulnerability of these societies to catastrophic shocks. The book is unusual in that it comprehensively covers resilience and fragilities from community levels to market mechanisms and governance and it analyses these issues in very different economic and structural settings. Recommended for development and disaster risk managers--without question.
Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir
Director, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED);
Professor, University of Louvain, Research Institute Health and Society.
Author Bio
Daniel P Aldrich is a professor of political science, public policy and urban affairs and a Director of Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University.
An award winning author, Daniel Aldrich has published five books, more than sixty peer reviewed articles, and written op-eds for The New York Times, CNN, Asahi Shinbun, along with appearing on popular media outlets such as CNBC, MSNBC, NPR, and HuffPost. Aldrich has spent more than five years carrying out fieldwork in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Abe Foundation.
Education
- Harvard University, Ph.D., Government 2005
- Harvard University, M.A., Government 2001
- University of California at Berkeley, M.A., Asian Studies 1998
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., Asian Studies 1996
Source: Northeastern University
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