Overview
- Is the first comprehensive book to focus on the emerging post-COVID-19 technology ecosystem in China
- Suggests applying key experiences and lessons learned from COVID-19 to future disasters and cascading risks
- Includes a blend of theories of emerging technologies and their practical implications
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bismark Adu Gyamfi is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. His research interests include resilience ecology, land use and urban planning, and smart cities and mobilities. He completed a master’s degree in media and governance at Keio University and has a background in urban planning. He has been involved in a number of projects assisted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in urban and land-use planning, mostly in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He is a co-founder of a Delhi (India)-based social entrepreneur startup, the Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA). Earlier, he was the executive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor in Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Professor Shaw was the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction and currently is the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Science Technology Advisory Group (AP-STAG). He is also the coordinating lead author (CLA) for the Asia chapter’s 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Progress in Disaster Science and series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Professor Shaw has published 53 books and over 400 academic papers and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Technology and Innovation Ecosystem in China
Editors: Jinling Hua, Bismark Adu Gyamfi, Rajib Shaw
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6959-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6958-3Published: 10 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6961-3Published: 11 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6959-0Published: 09 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 179
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Science and Technology Studies, Business and Management, general, Sociology, general, Medicine/Public Health, general