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Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience

COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World

  • 1st Edition - May 20, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Indrajit Pal, Rajib Shaw
  • Language: English

Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic’s global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. Th… Read more

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Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic’s global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. The book shows how COVID-19 intensified natural and anthropogenic hazards and destroyed years of communities, governments and the work of development organizations and their investments. It focuses on how disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in a post-COVID-19 era. Sections cover current governance practices, with special attention given to Asia’s more successful responses. It shows how the various sectors across that society were most impacted by COVID-19, including tourism and food systems.

This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners who need to understand response, preparedness and future pathways for pandemic resilience.

Key features

  • Showcases risk governance at local, national and regional scales
  • Captures multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral insights through numerous case studies
  • Uniquely addresses, in a comprehensive and structure manner, risk governance methodologies

Readership

Graduate students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in disaster/risk management, economics, public health, and sustainable development

Table of contents

PART 1: OVERVIEW AND NATIONAL GOVERNANCE RESPONSE

1. COVID pandemic, global spread, issues and challenges

2. Governance in the era of cascading risks: building systemic, multi-hazard multi-sectoral resilience approaches to build back better from COVID-19

3. Enhancing Risk Governance and Sustainability in times of COVID-19: Experiences and Repercussions from Thailand

4. Pandemic in the land of the Smile: The case of Covid-19 Outbreak in Thailand in 2020

5. Governance of disaster risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Central America: the case of Guatemala

6. National Perspectives of COVID-19: Case of Sri Lanka

7. Extent and Appraisal of COVID 19 Pandemic, Risk Governance and Resilience in Pakistan

8. Epidemics and Pandemics Risk Governance: A case of post Covid-19 in the UK

9. Risk governance, resilience, and response against COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea

10. Sri Lanka’s fight against COVID – 19: a brief overview

11. COVID-19 Pandemic in the Arctic and Sub Arctic

12. National perspectives of COVID 19 in the Maldives

13. Global pandemic governance in China: some reflections

14. Reflections on Pandemic Governance in Japan

PART 2: CAPACITY AND RESPONSE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

15, The Rohingyas in Bangladesh: The 2020 Pandemic and the aftermath

16, Guesstimating the COVID-19 burden: what is the best model?

17, Effective Measures in COVID 19 Prevention in Vietnam

18. Pandemic Management in Mountainous Regions; Challenges and Opportunities

19. Redefining Vulnerability and Resilience from the lens of COVID -19: A case study of Indian state of Bihar for COVID-19 Management

20. Uttar Pradesh - State level governance and response in COVID19 pandemic

21.Development and Operationalization of Disaster Risk Management Framework for COVID-19 Pandemic: Quezon City Inclusive Unified Response, Recovery, and Rehabilitation Action Plan 2020-2030, Philippines

22. COVID 19 Risk governance in Megacities in Kolkata, India

PART 3: LIVELIHOODS

23. Village health volunteers response COVID-19 impact on fisheries and aquaculture in Thailand

24. Covid 19 reflections on response and resilience of agricultural food system value chain

25. Assessing the impact of COVID-19 to tourism and adaptation strategies – a case study in Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam

26. Positive externality matters in the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of women informal businesses in Pakistan

27. Impact of Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sectors of Ghana

28. COVID 19 National Response on Tourism Sector: A case study of Western Division of Vitilevu, Fiji Islands

PART 4: COMMUNITY, AWARENESS AND EDUCATION

29. Risk Management and Resilience of Schools in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

30. Disaster Resilience in Perspectives of Public Management, Human Adaptation, and Education for all in Thailand

31. Knowledge Gaps and Operational Challenges in Managing COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Post Pandemic Strategies in Multi-Disaster Contexts

PART 5: CONCLUSION

32. COVID-19 pandemic, risk reduction and resilience measures

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 20, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Indrajit Pal

Dr. Indrajit Pal, an associate professor in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, brings over 21 years of expertise in disaster risk governance, hazard assessment, CBDRM, public health risk, and disaster resilience. With a distinguished background, he previously contributed to the Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India. Dr. Pal holds a pivotal role as a Board member of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), Japan, and serves as a Visiting Professor at Keio University. His advisory contributions extend to Disaster Risk Reduction for the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES). Dr. Pal is a prolific author and editor, with a portfolio of 15 books and over 180 peer-reviewed papers and chapters. Leading impactful projects in the Asia-Pacific region, his research focuses on risk characterization in Asian Delta communities and climate resilience in Lao PDR.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, India

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Rajib Shaw

Dr. Rajib Shaw is a professor at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance. He is also the Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan. He was previously the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and a Kyoto University Professor. Disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education are all areas of interest for him. Professor Shaw is the Chair of the UN Science Technology Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (STAG) and the Co-Chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He's also the CLA (Coordinating Lead Author) for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report's Asia chapter. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal "Progress in Disaster Science" published by Elsevier, as well as the series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has over 45 books to his credit, as well as over 300 scholarly papers and book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan

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