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Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific - Agency and Resilience (Paperback)
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Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific - Agency and Resilience (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
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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 cultural knowledge
and the media; and economic initiatives, and these themes are
approached from various academic disciplines, ranging from
anthropology and cultural studies to economics, human geography and
political science. The contributors draw their findings from a
variety of countries in the region, including China, Fiji, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar and Samoa, and importantly, focus on the
interconnection between vulnerability and resilience. In turn, the
book highlights how the nature and magnitude of disasters are
influenced by social conditions, and aims to contribute to policies
that prioritize development opportunities to enhance resilience.
Further, it explores the complicated and multifaceted role of
agency in building resilience, and presents a comparative framework
for analysis and key findings from the Asia-Pacific region. The
focus of this book on recent and ongoing disasters makes it a
topical and timely contribution to the growing field of disaster
management, and as such it will appeal to students and scholars of
environmental studies, development studies and Asian politics.
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