Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era

Book 图书名称：Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
Author 作者： Yi Kang
Publisher 出版社：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Page 页数： 126
Publishing Date 出版时间： Nov 14, 2014
Language 语言：English
Size 大小： 4 MB
Format 格式：pdf
ISBN: 978-3-662-44515-0, 978-3-662-44516-7

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 ==
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Nondemocracies in a Changing Era....Pages 1-20
Evolvement of Disaster Management Practices in China: A Trend Toward Greater Openness....Pages 21-48
Agency Problems in Disaster Response: The “Adaptation Quandary” for Nondemocratic Government....Pages 49-69
Postdisaster Changes in Local Governance and Chances for Nonstate Sector Development....Pages 71-89
A Note on Generalizability, Variation, and Implications....Pages 91-106
Back Matter....Pages 107-126

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