A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world s most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating impact of disasters is a pressing task for local actors.
This book takes a regional, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to improve understandings of how various actors respond to natural and human-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the ideas and activities of four different categories of agents:...
A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world s most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more t...
