Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in China, Japan and Beyond.
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 Reducti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 ... |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (467 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
ISBN: | 9781443861175 1443861170 1443858145 9781443858144 1306859069 9781306859066 |