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  title info:
    title: Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
  name:
    name part: Kang, Yi.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 126 p. 13 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 China’s 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 “political” story of how intra-governmental interactions, state-society relations, and international engagement can shape the processes and outcomes of recovery and reconstruction.
  table of contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Non-democracies in a Changing Era -- Chapter 2 Evolvement of Disaster Management Practices in China -- Chapter 3 Agency Problems in Disaster Response -- Chapter 4 Post-disaster Changes in Local Governance and Chances for Non-state Sector Development -- Chapter 5 A Note on Generality, Variation, and Implications -- Appendix: Notes on Fieldwork and Data Collection.
  note: by Yi Kang.
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Political Science and International Relations
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: JA1-92
  classification: 320
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
  identifier: 9783662445167
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44516-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 141003
    record change date: 20151204184602.0
    record identifier: 978-3-662-44516-7