Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience
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Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience

COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World

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Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience

COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World

About this book

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. - 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

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Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780323992770
eBook ISBN
9780323994361
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Human Geography
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience
  2. Cover
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. About the editors
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1 COVID-19 pandemic, global spread, issues, and challenges
  10. Chapter 2 COVID-19 and fiscal stimulus in South Asia: implications for resilience and sustainable development
  11. Chapter 3 Enhancing risk governance and sustainability in times of COVID-19: experiences and repercussions from Thailand
  12. Chapter 4 Pandemic in the land of the smile: the case of COVID-19 outbreak in Thailand in 2020
  13. Chapter 5 Disaster risk governance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Central America: the case of Guatemala
  14. Chapter 6 National perspectives of COVID-19: case of Sri Lanka
  15. Chapter 7 Extent and appraisal of COVID-19 pandemic, risk governance, and resilience in Pakistan
  16. Chapter 8 Epidemics and pandemics risk governance: a case of post-COVID-19 in the United Kingdom
  17. Chapter 9 Risk governance, resilience, and response against COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea
  18. Chapter 10 Sri Lanka's fight against COVID-19: a brief overview
  19. Chapter 11 COVID-19 pandemic in the Arctic and Subarctic
  20. Chapter 12 National perspectives of COVID-19 in the Maldives
  21. Chapter 13 Reflections on pandemic governance in China and its implications to future 5G strategy
  22. Chapter 14 Reflections on pandemic governance in Japan
  23. Chapter 15 The Rohingyas in Bangladesh: the 2020 pandemic and the aftermath
  24. Chapter 16 Guesstimating the COVID-19 burden: what is the best model?
  25. Chapter 17 Pandemic management in mountainous regions: challenges and opportunities
  26. Chapter 18 Redefining vulnerability and resilience from COVID-19 lens: a case study of COVID-19 management in Bihar, India
  27. Chapter 19 Uttar Pradesh: state governance and response in COVID-19 pandemic
  28. Chapter 20 Development and operationalization of disaster risk management framework for COVID-19 pandemic: Quezon City inclusive unified response, recovery, and rehabilitation action plan 2020–2030
  29. Chapter 21 Risk Governance Perspectives for compounding hazards: a case study in Megacity Kolkata
  30. Chapter 22 Government and public health measures in response to COVID-19 pandemic and impacts on fisheries and aquaculture in Thailand
  31. Chapter 23 Response and resilience of agricultural value chain to COVID-19 pandemic in India and Thailand
  32. Chapter 24 Assessing the impact of COVID-19 to tourism and adaptation strategies: a case study in Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam
  33. Chapter 25 Positive externality matters in the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of women informal businesses in District Mardan, Pakistan
  34. Chapter 26 Pandemic risk, response, and resilience of fishermen in Ghana: a case study of fishing communities in Stratum VII, Volta Lake
  35. Chapter 27 COVID-19 national response on tourism sector: a case study of Western division of Vitilevu, Fiji Islands
  36. Chapter 28 Risk management and resilience of schools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  37. Chapter 29 Impacts of pandemic on education sector in Thailand
  38. Chapter 30 Knowledge gaps and operational challenges in managing COVID-19 in Bangladesh: postpandemic strategies in multi-disaster contexts
  39. Index