Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Confronting Disaster: Recent Lessons from the Asia-Pacific

   • Caroline Brassard, Arnold M. Howitt, David W. Giles

   Pages 1-13

3. Emergency Response and Humanitarian Relief

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Localising the Humanitarian Toolkit: Lessons from Recent Philippines Disasters

      • Rebecca Barber

      Pages 17-31

   3. Muhammadiyah and Disaster Response: Innovation and Change in Humanitarian Assistance

      • Robin Bush

      Pages 33-48

   4. The Impact of the Indian Ocean Tsunami on Maldives

      • Mohamed Waheed, Hussain Alim Shakoor

      Pages 49-68

   5. Collaboration in Emergency Response in China: Evolution from the Wenchuan Earthquake, May 12, 2008 to the Lushan Earthquake, April 20, 2013

      • Haibo Zhang

      Pages 69-84

4. Recovery and Resilience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. “One in Trouble, All to Help”: The Paired Assistance Program to Disaster-Affected Areas in China

      • Kaibin Zhong, Xiaoli Lu

      Pages 87-100

   3. Collaborative Manpower Support for Restoring Hope in the Aftermath of the March 11 Disasters in Japan

      • Naomi Aoki

      Pages 101-117

   4. Communities at the Heart of Recovery: Reflections on the Government-Community Partnership for Recovery After the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia

      • Kerry O’Neill

      Pages 119-138

   5. Disaster, Mental Health, and Community Resilience: Lessons from the Field in Aceh Province, Indonesia

      • Dicky Pelupessy, Diane Bretherton

      Pages 139-155

5. Improving Preparedness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Regional Business Continuity Management Through Public-Private Partnerships in Japan

      • Kenji Watanabe

      Pages 159-173

   3. The Rise of Disaster Risk Insurance and Derivatives

      • Gilles Carbonnier

      Pages 175-188

   4. Building the Urban Community Disaster Relief System in China

      • Songyan Chu

      Pages 189-203

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.

• Climate Change
• Community Resilience
• Disaster Management
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Risk Reduction
• landscape/regional and urban planning

“The book Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific presents a synopsis of contemporary risk-management thinking in the Asia-Pacific. … Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific is well organized, concise and easy to navigate. … this book will be of interest to those involved in disaster risk-management activities throughout the Asia-Pacific.” (Thomas W. Haase, Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. XL (1), September, 2015)

• National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Caroline Brassard

• Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USA

  Arnold M. Howitt, David W. Giles

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