Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters (IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series)

Annotation "Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters" is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. It consists of two parts: Part I: Integrated Risk Governance Project Science Plan, which outlines the challenge, research programme, outcomes, and implementation strategy of the IRG Project; and Part II: Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters, which includes case analyses of experience, lessons learned and recommendations on various large-scale disasters around the world, such as the Tangshan and Wenchuan earthquakes and the great ice storm in China, European heat waves, and Hurricane Katrina in the USA. The community model of integrated natural disaster risk governance and paradigm of catastrophe risk governance in China are also presented. Prof. Peijun Shi works at Beijing Normal University, China; Prof. Carlo Jaeger works at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany; Prof. Qian Ye works at Beijing Normal University, China Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Executive Summary....Pages 3-6 The Challenge....Pages 7-18 Research Programme....Pages 19-41 Outcomes....Pages 43-49 Implementation Strategy....Pages 51-54 Back Matter....Pages 55-69 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Experience, Lessons and Recommendation of China’s Response to the Wenchuan Earthquake Disaster....Pages 71-88 Experience, Lessons and Recommendations of China’s Response to Sleet & Snow Disaster in South....Pages 89-118 Avoiding the Avoidable: Towards a European Heat Waves Risk Governance....Pages 119-144 Hurricane Katrina: A Teachable Moment....Pages 145-153 The Great Tangshan and Wenchuan Earthquakes in China: A Preliminary Comparison and Lessons Learned....Pages 155-169 Comparative Study on Sleet and Snow Disaster in Southern China and Hurricane Katrina Disater in USA....Pages 173-185 Chinese Paradigm of Catastrophe Risk Governance....Pages 187-204 The Community Model of Integrated Natural Disaster Risk Governance in China....Pages 205-216 Back Matter....Pages 217-243