Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in China, Japan and Beyond.
Title:
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in China, Japan and Beyond.
Author:
Awotona, Adenrele.
ISBN:
9781443861175
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (467 pages)
Series:
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- PART II -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- PART III -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- PART IV -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This volume examines lessons learned in reducing the impact of disasters on communities in China, Japan and other countries world-wide. Asia is the most disaster-prone continent. The 2012 data on natural disasters in 28 Asian countries, released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Belgian-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters on December 11th, 2012 showed that, from 1950 to 2011, nine out of ten people affected by disasters globally were in A...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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