Strategic Disaster Risk Management in Asia
This book presents strategies for managing disasters and reducing risks in Asian countries. Given the dynamic changes in the natural environment as well as the patterns of land use and management, the growing populations of the developing nations in Asia,
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egic Disaster Risk Management in Asia
Strategic Disaster Risk Management in Asia
Huong Ha • R. Lalitha S. Fernando Amir Mahmood Editors
Strategic Disaster Risk Management in Asia
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Editors Huong Ha UON Singapore, Singapore
R. Lalitha S. Fernando Department of Public Administration Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce University of Sri Jayewardenepura Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
University of Newcastle, Australia Amir Mahmood UON Singapore, Singapore University of Newcastle, Australia
ISBN 978-81-322-2372-6 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2373-3
ISBN 978-81-322-2373-3 (eBook)
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Foreword
Governments and their bureaucracies are notoriously slow, methodical and lumbering. Natural and human-induced disasters often occur suddenly and unpredictably, with rapid devastation. Hence, there is a serious mismatch between governments’ abilities and their responsibilities to prevent and mitigate disasters. Moreover, this gap between ability and responsibility will continue to grow unless governments greatly improve disaster management. This is because the number of disasters is growing, partly to patterns of contemporary human civilisation, and the probability of their occurrence and reoccurrence is increasing. By one calculation as chapter 9 notes, some 3,870 disasters took place worldwide from 2000 to 2009 – more than one per day on average. Ironically, although we have better technology, such as remote sensing, satellites, equipment, transportation and emergency medical care to deal with disasters, technology itself is a contributor to weather-related devastation, the human and environmental tolls of violent conflicts, the spread of epidemics and even earthquakes as in the case of hydraulic fracturin
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