Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia Kartoniert (TB)

This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia's urban populations from a governance perspective. It adopts a multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approach to disaster governance that emphasises the importance of multiple stakeholders in preparing for responding to and recovering from disasters and their cascading impacts in Asia's cities. The contributors to this volume take a broad view of the multifaceted causalities and the interconnected threats and vulnerabilities of environmental disasters in urbanising Asia. As such the book is an invitation to ad vance scholarship in the search for more effective comprehensive and inclusive disaster preparedness agendas recovery programs and development priorities.