The Politics of Disaster Management in China
Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation
1st Edition
Published on 29. April 2016
XI, 137 pages
978-1-137-54831-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XI, 137 p. 5 illus. in color.
File size
2,19 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-54831-3 (9781137548313)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-54831-3
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Gang Chen
The Politics of Disaster Management in China
Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation
Book
05/2016
Palgrave MacMillan
€53.49
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Person
Chen Gang is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. His publications include
China's Climate Policy
and
Politics of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress
. He provides consultancy for the Singapore government on political and environmental issues in East Asia. He is frequently interviewed by media like
The Wall Street Journal
, CNBC, BBC, NHK, and Xinhua News Agency.
Content
1. Natural Disaster Management in Ancient China.- 2. From ROC to PRC: Modernization of China's Disaster Management.- 3. The Reform Era: Institutional Changes and Evolution of Norms.- 4. Bureaucratic Politics at the Central Level.- 5. Central vs Local.- 6. Military Forces in China's Disaster Management.- 7. New Challenges from Popular Politics: NGOs, Commercial Organizations, Social Media, and Civic Society.- 8. "Reform 2.0": Progress and Limits.- 9. China's Natural Disaster Management: Implications for Non-democratic Governance.
