Japan's Disaster Governance: How Was the 3.11 Crisis Managed?

by Yuko Kaneko and Itoko Suzuki

Book Overview

Natural disasters are often multifaceted and cause severe damage. Disasters initiated locally can become national and even global crises. Today's world urgently needs a new body of knowledge and techniques for the mitigation of and response to disaster. Central to such a body of knowledge are disaster preparedness, emergency and crisis management systems of government, of which capacity building is becoming an increasingly important element in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489985867
• ISBN13: 9781489985866
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"