Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security: Asian Experience and Perspectives
450Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security: Asian Experience and Perspectives
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ISBN-13: | 9789811588549 |
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Publisher: | Springer Nature Singapore |
Publication date: | 03/20/2021 |
Series: | Disaster Risk Reduction |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2021 |
Pages: | 450 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Dr. Makoto Inoue is a professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan and former professor at The University of Tokyo. He serves as a dean of Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University effective September 2020. His specialty is environmental sociology, forest governance, and Southeast Asian studies. He has written and edited/co-edited 34 books, and published more than 140 original articles in peer-reviewed international and national journals on the social aspects of forestry and the environment. He serves as President of The Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology (June 2019-present), Vice President of Japanese Society for Current Anthropology (January 2020-present), Vice President of Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (April 2018-March 2020), Councilor of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (January 2019-present ), a board member of various academic societies in Japan, and an editorial board member of several international journals.
Dr. Rajib Shaw is Professor at the Keio University in Japan and former Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme. He is also the Senior Fellow of Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the Chairperson of SEEDS Asia, and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs. Previously, he was a professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He is the editor of a book series on disaster risk reduction, published by Springer, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Progress in Disaster Science. He severs as the Chair of United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group for disaster risk reduction, and is the co-chair of the UNDRR’s Asia-Pacific Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). Prof. Shaw has published more than 45 books and more than 300 academic papers and book chapters.