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Author Awotona, Adenrele A.

Title Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in China, Japan and Beyond.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (467 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary This volume examines lessons learned in reducing the impact of disasters on communities in China, Japan and other countries world-wide. Asia is the most disaster-prone continent. The 2012 data on natural disasters in 28 Asian countries, released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Belgian-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters on December 11th, 2012 showed that, from 1950 to 2011, nine out of ten people affected by disasters globally were in A ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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Subject Disaster relief -- China -- Congresses.
Disaster relief.
China.
Disaster relief -- Japan -- Congresses.
Japan.
Sustainable development -- China -- Congresses.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development -- Japan -- Congresses.
Community development -- China -- Congresses.
Community development.
Community development -- Japan -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Other Form: Print version: Awotona, Adenrele. Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in China, Japan and Beyond. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443858144
ISBN 9781443861175 (electronic book)
1443861170 (electronic book)
9781443858144