Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives by Luke Nottage, Hitoshi Nasu, Simon Butt
November 12, 2013 | ISBN: 3642397670 | Pages: 250 | PDF | 6 MB
The book outlines the regulatory environment for disaster prevention and management in broad social, economic and political context. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Japan, especially the ‘3-11’ events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku area on 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant radiation leaks.