The Nature of Disaster in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Disaster in China write by Chris Courtney. This book was released on 2018-02-15. The Nature of Disaster in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made disaster. Rather, it was created by an interaction between the environment and society. Regular inundation had long been an integral feature of the ecology and culture of the middle Yangzi, yet by the modern era floods had become humanitarian catastrophes. Courtney describes how the ecological and economic effects of the 1931 flood pulse caused widespread famine and epidemics. He takes readers into the inundated streets of Wuhan, describing the terrifying and disorientating sensory environment. He explains why locals believed that an angry Dragon King was causing the flood, and explores how Japanese invasion and war with the Communists inhibited both official relief efforts and refugee coping strategies. This innovative study offers the first in-depth analysis of the 1931 flood, and charts the evolution of one of China's most persistent environmental problems.
Natural Disasters in China
Natural Disasters in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Disasters in China write by Peijun Shi. This book was released on 2016-05-18. Natural Disasters in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first English language book that systematically introduces the spatial and temporal patterns of major natural disasters in China from 1949 to 2014. It also reveals natural disaster formation mechanisms and processes, quantifies vulnerability to these disasters, evaluates disaster risks, summarizes the key strategies of integrated disaster risk governance, and analyzes large-scale disaster response cases in recent years in China. The book can be a good reference for researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of natural disaster risk management and risk governance for improving the understanding of natural disasters in China.
The Politics of Disaster Management in China
The Politics of Disaster Management in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Disaster Management in China write by Gang Chen. This book was released on 2016-04-29. The Politics of Disaster Management in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In China’s 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics of China’s disaster management. It analyses the factors in China’s governance and political process that restrains its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in modern China’s disaster politics, with special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization and fragmentation.
The Nature of Disaster in China
The Nature of Disaster in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Disaster in China write by Chris Courtney. This book was released on 2018-02-15. The Nature of Disaster in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made disaster. Rather, it was created by an interaction between the environment and society. Regular inundation had long been an integral feature of the ecology and culture of the middle Yangzi, yet by the modern era floods had become humanitarian catastrophes. Courtney describes how the ecological and economic effects of the 1931 flood pulse caused widespread famine and epidemics. He takes readers into the inundated streets of Wuhan, describing the terrifying and disorientating sensory environment. He explains why locals believed that an angry Dragon King was causing the flood, and explores how Japanese invasion and war with the Communists inhibited both official relief efforts and refugee coping strategies. This innovative study offers the first in-depth analysis of the 1931 flood, and charts the evolution of one of China's most persistent environmental problems.
The Crisis of the 14th Century
The Crisis of the 14th Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crisis of the 14th Century write by Martin Bauch. This book was released on 2019-12-16. The Crisis of the 14th Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pre-modern critical interactions of nature and society can best be studied during the so-called "Crisis of the 14th Century". While historiography has long ignored the environmental framing of historcial processes and scientists have over-emphasized nature's impact on the course of human history, this volume tries to describe the at times complex modes of the late-medieval relationship of man and nature. The idea of 'teleconnection', borrowed from the geosciences, describes the influence of atmospheric circulation patterns often over long distances. It seems that there were 'teleconnections' in society, too. So this volumes aims to examine man-environment interactions mainly in the 14th century from all over Europe and beyond. It integrates contributions from different disciplines on impact, perception and reaction of environmental change and natural extreme events on late Medieval societies. For humanists from all historical disciplines it offers an approach how to integrate written and even scientific evidence on environmental change in established and new fields of historical research. For scientists it demonstrates the contributions scholars from the humanities can provide for discussion on past environmental changes.
