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  • Post-Disaster Governance in Southeast Asia

    Response, Recovery, and Resilient Societies

    Edited by Andri N.R. Mardiah, Robert B. Olshansky, Mizan B.F. Bisri ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book aims to provide insight into how Southeast Asian countries have responded to disasters, recovered, and rebuilt. It investigates emergency response and disaster recovery cases at national levels and from regional perspectives. Recovery from great disasters poses great challenges to affected countries in terms of organization, financing, and opportunities for post-disaster betterment. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Clear as Mud

    Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans

    by Robert B. Olshansky, Laurie Johnson ...
    Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time. Since 2005, Robert B. Olshansky and Laurie A. Johnson, urban planners who specialize in disaster planning and recovery, have been working to understand, in real time, the difficult planning decisions in this unusual situation. As both observers of and ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

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    Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Sociology and Educational Transformation (ICCSET 2020), Malang, Indonesia, 23 September 2020

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  • Disaster Management: Global Challenges and Local Solutions

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  • Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences

    Edited by Isbandi Rukminto Adi, Rochman Achwan ...
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  • Forty Years of Community-Based Forestry: A Review of Its Extent and Effectiveness

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in different ... Read more

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  • Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)

    by Richard Heeks ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector – supporting the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; ... Read more

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  • Planning Cities in Africa

    Current Issues and Future Prospects of Urban Governance and Planning

    Edited by Genet Alem Gebregiorgis, Stefan Greiving, Ally Hassan Namangaya, Wilbard Jackson Kombe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice and ... Read more

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  • Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability

    Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Merle Sowman, Rachel Wynberg ...
    Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, J.C. Gaillard ...
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five ... Read more

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  • Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew

    by S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population growth, migration ... Read more

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  • Capacity-building and Pandemics

    Singapore’s Response to Covid-19

    by Jun Jie Woo ...
    Series Book 19 - Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on the policy capacities, built up since the 2003 SARS crisis, that have contributed to Singapore’s Covid-19 response efforts. In doing so, the book discusses the fiscal, operational, analytical and political capacities that have driven Singapore's policy response to the pandemic, and proposes a broad policy capacity framework that will be applicable to the analysis of other ... Read more

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