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The Politics of Crisis Management in China
The Sichuan Earthquake
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2014
Summary
This book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People’s Liberation Army and its difficulties, the assertive and important role of the non-governmental groups which established a partnership with the state in the rescue operations, and the process and politics of reconstruction. The book is rich in materials, including comparative case studies of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Myanmar, and the contrasts with the Japanese earthquake tsunami in 2011. Researchers, government officials, policy analysts, seismic specialists, journalists and students will find this book extremely useful, conceptually insightful and practically policy-relevant.
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Edition
1/2014
Copyright Year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3952-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3954-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
135
Product Type
Monograph
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Introduction No access
1 The Critical 72 Hours after the Sichuan Earthquake No access Pages 1 - 20
2 The Response of Interest Groups, Citizens, and Tibetan Activists No access Pages 21 - 42
3 The Role of the People’s Liberation Army No access Pages 43 - 54
4 Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Work and Policy Learning No access Pages 55 - 78
5 Crisis Management in Comparative Perspective No access Pages 79 - 106
