Disaster management in China in a changing era [electronic resource] / Yi Kang.

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Disaster management in China in a changing era [electronic resource] / Yi Kang.

9783662445167 electronic book
3662445166 electronic book
9783662445150

Heidelberg : Springer, [2014]

©2015

English

1 online resource (xvii, 126 pages) : illustrations (some color).

10.1007/978-3-662-44516-7 doi

HV555.C6

363.34/8068

This book shows how Chinese officials have responded to popular and international pressure, while at the same time seeking to preserve their own careers, in the context of disaster management. Using the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as a case study, it illustrates how authoritarian regimes are creating new governance mechanisms in response to the changing global environment and what challenges they are confronted with in the process. The book examines both the immediate and long-term effects of a major disaster on Chinaℓ́ℓs policy, institutions, and governing practices, and seeks to explain which factors lead to hasty and poorly conceived reconstruction efforts, which in turn reproduce the very same conditions of vulnerability or expose communities to new risks. In short, it tells a ℓ́ℓpoliticalℓ́ℓ story of how intra-governmental interactions, state-society relations, and international engagement can shape the processes and outcomes of recovery and reconstruction.

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