Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia
This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries. The Asian region has become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, storms, earthquakes, drought, typhoons and tsunamis. Further, as a result of unsust
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Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia
Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia
Huong Ha Editor
Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia
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Editor Huong Ha UON Singapore (University of Newcastle, Singapore Campus) Singapore Singapore
ISBN 978-81-322-1975-0 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-1976-7
ISBN 978-81-322-1976-7
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Foreword
Even before the world entered an era of globalisation, the term ‘‘spaceship earth’’ emphasised the interconnectedness of our planet’s peoples, resources, climates, ecological, economic and natural systems, and future prospects. Given man’s huge dependence on non-renewable resources from time immemorial and systemic tendencies towards entropy, the increasingly pertinent need to manage the planet became clear. Perhaps the challenge and task were best captured by the title of R. Buckminster Fuller’s 1969 book, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Along the same lines, but more darkly, Garrett Hardin introduced the concept of ‘‘Lifeboat Ethics’’ (1974). Fortunately, as Julian Simon contended in The Ultimate Resource and Ultimate Resource 2
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