The Nature of Disaster in China
Title | The Nature of Disaster in China PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Courtney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2018-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108284930 |
In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made disaster. Rather, it was created by an interaction between the environment and society. Regular inundation had long been an integral feature of the ecology and culture of the middle Yangzi, yet by the modern era floods had become humanitarian catastrophes. Courtney describes how the ecological and economic effects of the 1931 flood pulse caused widespread famine and epidemics. He takes readers into the inundated streets of Wuhan, describing the terrifying and disorientating sensory environment. He explains why locals believed that an angry Dragon King was causing the flood, and explores how Japanese invasion and war with the Communists inhibited both official relief efforts and refugee coping strategies. This innovative study offers the first in-depth analysis of the 1931 flood, and charts the evolution of one of China's most persistent environmental problems.
The Nature of Disaster in China
Title | The Nature of Disaster in China PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Courtney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2018-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108417779 |
Unearths the forgotten history of a catastrophic flood, examining its profound impact upon the environment and society of modern China.
Natural Disasters in China
Title | Natural Disasters in China PDF eBook |
Author | Peijun Shi |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2016-05-18 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 3662502704 |
This is the first English language book that systematically introduces the spatial and temporal patterns of major natural disasters in China from 1949 to 2014. It also reveals natural disaster formation mechanisms and processes, quantifies vulnerability to these disasters, evaluates disaster risks, summarizes the key strategies of integrated disaster risk governance, and analyzes large-scale disaster response cases in recent years in China. The book can be a good reference for researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of natural disaster risk management and risk governance for improving the understanding of natural disasters in China.
Atlas of Natural Disasters in China
Title | Atlas of Natural Disasters in China PDF eBook |
Author | Suihan Yao |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Systematically expresses the temporal and spatial patterns of natural disasters, the hazard-formative environment, hazard-affected bodies and hazard-formative factors.
Economic Impacts and Emergency Management of Disasters in China
Title | Economic Impacts and Emergency Management of Disasters in China PDF eBook |
Author | Xianhua Wu |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 704 |
Release | 2021-04-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9811613192 |
This book uses cutting-edge methods, such as big data mining methods on social media, generalized difference in difference, inoperational input–output models, improved data envelopment analysis, improved computable general equilibrium and others to calculate the economic impacts of climate and environmental disasters on China. This book provides the ideas, methods and cases of the redistribution of air pollution emissions in China through evaluating the benefits of meteorological disaster services and meteorological financial insurance. Using big data resources and data mining methods, as well as econometric models, etc., this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic impact of disasters in China and studies China's counterpart aid policy and international aid policy for disasters. This book is an academic monograph devoted to the China’s case study. The intended readership includes academics, government officials, graduate students and people concerned about China.
The Politics of Disaster Management in China
Title | The Politics of Disaster Management in China PDF eBook |
Author | Gang Chen |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2016-04-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137548312 |
In China’s 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics of China’s disaster management. It analyses the factors in China’s governance and political process that restrains its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in modern China’s disaster politics, with special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization and fragmentation.
Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
Title | Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Brassard |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2014-11-18 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 4431551573 |
The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. The chapters focus on disaster preparedness and management, including pre-event planning and mitigation, crisis leadership and emergency response, and disaster recovery. Specific events discussed in this book include a broad spectrum of disasters such as tropical storms and typhoons in the Philippines; earthquakes in China; tsunamis in Indonesia, Japan, and Maldives; and bushfires in Australia. The book aims to generate discussions about improved risk reduction strategies throughout the region. It seeks to provide a comparative perspective across countries to draw lessons from three perspectives: public policy, humanitarian systems, and community engagement.