Crossing Borders

1. Front Matter

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2. Crossing Borders: Governing the Globalising Urban Matrix of Compound Disasters in Asia and the Pacific

   • Michelle Ann Miller, Michael Douglass

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3. Erratum to: Recognising Global Interdependence Through Disasters

   • Anthony Reid

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4. Cross-Border Disasters in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Recognising Global Interdependence Through Disasters

      • Anthony Reid

      Pages 21-40

   3. Crossing Colonial Borders: Governing Environmental Disasters in Historic Context

      • Fiona Williamson

      Pages 41-57

   4. Governing Cross-Border Effects of Disasters in Urbanising Asia: What Do We Know?

      • Matthias Garschagen

      Pages 59-78

   5. Disasters Across Borders: Borderlands as Spaces of Hope and Innovation in the Geopolitics of Environmental Disasters

      • John Hannigan

      Pages 79-94

5. Transboundary Governance in Riparian Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Urban Transformations Across Borders: The Interwoven Influence of Regionalisation, Urbanisation and Climate Change in the Mekong Region

      • Richard Friend, Pakamas Thinphanga

      Pages 97-116

   3. Environmental Disasters in the Mekong Subregion: Looking Beyond State Boundaries

      • Andrea Haefner

      Pages 117-132

   4. Cross-Boundary Disaster Risk Governance: Lessons from the Pearl River Delta

      • Alain Guilloux

      Pages 133-151

6. Cross-Border Disaster Collaborations

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Resilience of Islands: Borders and Boundaries of Risk Reduction

      • Karl Kim, Konia Freitas

      Pages 155-174

   3. The Empowerment of Local Community Groups as a New Innovation in Cross-Border Disaster Governance Frameworks

      • Yenny Rahmayati

      Pages 175-192

   4. Cities as Aid Agencies? Preliminary Prospects and Cautionary Signposts from Post-Disaster Interurban Cooperation in Asia

      • Kristoffer B. Berse

      Pages 193-216

7. Cross-Border Disasters and Conflict Potential

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Governing Cross-Border Ecology, Hazards and Population Movement: Narratives and Counter-Narratives from India and Bangladesh

      • Sarfaraz Alam

      Pages 219-242

   3. China-Based Air Pollution and Epistemic Community Building in the Northeast Asian Region

      • Matthew A. Shapiro

      Pages 243-260

   4. Zaps and Taps: Solar Storms, Electricity and Water Supply Disasters, and Governance

      • Robert James Wasson

      Pages 261-277

This multidisciplinary book examines the diverse ways in which environmental disasters with compounding impacts are being governed as they traverse sovereign territories across rapidly urbanising societies in Asia and the Pacific. Combining theoretical advances with contextually rich studies, the book examines efforts to tackle the complexities of cross-border environmental governance. In an urban age in which disasters are not easily contained within neatly delineated jurisdictions, both in terms of their interconnected causalities and their cascading effects, governance structures and mechanisms are faced with major challenges related to cooperation, collaboration and information sharing. This book helps bridge the gap between theory and practice by offering fresh insights and contrasting explanations for variations in transboundary disaster governance regimes among urbanising populations in the Asia-Pacific.

• Disasters across borders in urbanizing Asia
• Cross-border disaster governance in Asia-Pacific
• Governing transboundary disasters in urban Asia-Pacific
• Cross-border cooperation for environmental disasters
• Governing environmental disasters without borders
• Environmental disaster management
• Cross-border environmental governance
• Disasters in Asia and the Pacific
• Effects of disasters
• Urbanization and climate change
• Disasters in Mekong sub-regions
• Disasters in Pearl River Delta
• Empowerment of local community groups
• urban geography and urbanism
• climate change

• Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Michelle Ann Miller, Michael Douglass

• Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Matthias Garschagen

Michelle Ann Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Trained in political science, her research focuses on intersections between urban and regional governance in the context of human conflict and environmental change. She leads the Disaster Governance theme of the Asian Urbanisms Cluster at ARI. Her interdisciplinary publications speak to contemporary theoretical debates and key policy issues in environmental disaster governance, decentralisation, urban change, and citizenship and belonging. A reoccurring concern throughout her work is with the policy potential and lived experience of decentralisation in generating more inclusive and effective forms of governance, especially in Indonesia but across Asia more broadly. Before joining ARI, she taught at Deakin University and Charles Darwin University in Australia, and she has held visiting research fellowships in Indonesia at both the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Jakarta) and Ar-Raniry Institut Agama Islam Negeri (Banda Aceh). She is international advisor of the Varieties of Peace research program, a global initiative of Umeå University, supported by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.   

Mike Douglass is Professor at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, where he is Leader of the Asian Urbanisms Cluster. He is Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaii where he was also the Director of the Globalization Research Center. He received his PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA. He previously held positions in the United Nations and taught at the Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) and the University of East Anglia (UK).

Matthias Garschagen is the Head of Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management and Adaptive Planning (VARMAP) at United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Securit

y (UNU-EHS). He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cologne, Germany. His research focuses on urban vulnerability and social resilience in the context of natural hazard and climate change impacts, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. He is especially concerned with the governance of urban adaptation efforts in dynamically transforming countries and with the question of how shifts in vulnerability can be assessed in a forward-looking manner using novel scenario techniques. Over the last years, he has been taking on a leading role (principal investigator and work package leader) in several international research projects. His research findings have been published (authored and co-authored) in high-ranking international journals. From 2012, Matthias Garschagen has been an invited contributing author to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, in the chapter on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Asia (WG2, chapter 24).

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