Community practices for disaster risk reduction in Japan

This book presents key lessons from community-based risk-reduction practices in Japan, a country that is often hit by disasters and that also has shown strong resilience in coping with those disasters. Japan has a strong governance system for disaster risk reduction. However, the Kobe earthquake of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shaw, Rajib (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tokyo Springer 2014.
Series:Disaster risk reduction.
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