Editors:
- Comprises a seminal work chartering the contours of the emerging field of health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM)
- Includes cutting-edge information in H-EDRM contributed by scholars and practitioners with specific expertise in their own subfields
- Provides an interdisciplinary framework and insights into the field of H-EDRM from multidisciplinary scholars
- Presents illustrative examples from the most disaster-prone continent – Asia
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
H-EDRM has emerged as an umbrella field that encompasses emergency and disaster medicine, DRR, humanitarian response, community health resilience, and health system resilience. However, this fragmented, nascent field has yet to be developed into a coherent discipline. Key challenges include redundant research, lack of a strategic research agenda, limited development of multisectoral and interdisciplinary approaches, deficiencies in the science–policy–practice nexus, absence of standardized terminology, and insufficient coordination among stakeholders. This book provides a timely and invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, scholars, and frontline practitioners as well as policymakers from across the component domains of H-EDRM.
Keywords
- Health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM)
- Emergency and disaster medicine
- Humanitarian response
- Community health resilience
- Health system resilience
- H-EDRM in Asia
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
- 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Paris climate agreement
- New Urban Agenda (Habitat III)
- Health issues in DRR
Editors and Affiliations
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JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Emily Ying Yang Chan
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Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Fujisawa, Japan
Rajib Shaw
About the editors
Professor Emily Ying Yang Chan is a Professor, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Associate Director, of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Centre for Global Health (CGH) and Centre of Excellence (ICoE-CCOUC), Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR); Co-chair of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Group; and a member of the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group (ASTAAG). She is also a visiting professor at the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Medicine; senior fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and visiting scholar, FXB Center, Harvard University. Her research interests include disaster and humanitarian medicine, climate change and health, global and planetary health, human health security and health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM), remote rural health, implementation and translational science, ethnic minority health, injury and violence epidemiology, and primary care. Awarded the American Public Health Association’s 2007 Nobuo Maeda International Research Award, Professor Chan has published more than 200 international peer-reviewed academic, technical, and conference articles and eight academic books. She also has extensive experience as an international frontline emergency relief practitioner in the mid-1990s.
Rajib Shaw is a Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University’s Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). Before that, he was the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), a decade-long research program co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the chair of SEEDS Asia, CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He was a Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He is the Chair of the United Nations Global Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG); and is the co-chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He serves as the Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of Asia chapter of IPCC 6th Assessment Report on Climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability. He is the editor of a book series on disaster risk reduction, published by Springer. Prof. Shaw has published more than 45 books and over 300 academic papers and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Health and Disasters
Book Subtitle: Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management in Asia
Editors: Emily Ying Yang Chan, Rajib Shaw
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0924-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0923-0Published: 25 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0926-1Published: 25 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0924-7Published: 24 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 343
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Public Health, Sustainable Development