Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters

Ch 1 Community, Market and Government Responses to Disaster (Daniel P. Aldrich, (Yasuyuki Sawada and Sothea Oum).- Part 1 Family and Community Ties.- Ch 2 Social Capital in Post Disaster Recovery: Towards a Resilient and Compassionate East (Asian Community (Daniel P. Aldrich).- Ch 3 The Role of Community Social Protection in Natural Disaster Risk Management in Cambodia (Sann Vathana, Sothea Oum, Ponhrith Kan and Colas Chervier).- Ch 4 Economic and Welfare Impacts of Disasters in East Asia and Policy Responses: The Case of Vietnamese Communities (Le Dang Trung).- Ch 5 Impact of the 2011 Floods and Flood Management on Thai Households (Nipon Poapongsakorn and Pitsom Meethom).- Part 2: Market and Production Networks.- Ch 6 Impacts of Recent Crises and Disasters on Regional Production/Distribution Networks and Markets in Japan (Mitsuyo Ando).- Ch 7 Impact of Natural Disasters on Production Networks and Urbanization in New Zealand (Brent Layton).- Ch 8 Long-run Economic Impacts of Thai Flooding on Markets and Production Networks: Geographical Simulation Analysis (Ikumo Isono and Satoru Kumagai).- Ch 9 Index-based Risk Financing and Development of Natural Disaster Insurance Programs in Developing Asian Countries (Sommarat Chantarat, Krirk Pannangpetch, Nattapong Puttanapong, Preesan Rakwatin, and Thanasin Tanompongphandh).- Ch 10 On the Design of Regional Insurance Schemes/ Mechanisms for East Asia (Hiroyuki Nakata).- Part 3: Government Policy and Risk Management.- Ch 11 Natural Disaster and Economic Policy for ASEAN and the Pacific Rim: A Proposal for a Disaster Risk Reduction 'Seal of Approval' Fund (Ilan Noy).- Ch 12 Impacts of Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in Malaysia: The Case of Floods (Ngai Weng Chan).- Ch 13 Impacts from and State Responses to Natural Disasters in the Philippines (Danilo C. Israel and Roehlano M. Briones).- Ch 14 Impacts of Natural Disasters and Disasters Risk Management in China: The Case of China's Experience in Wenchuan Earthquake

About the Editors

Daniel P. Aldrich is an associate professor and university scholar in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. Aldrich was a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Tokyo's Economics Department for the academic year 2012-2013 and an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at USAID from 2011-2012. He has been a visiting Abe scholar at the University of Tokyo's Law Faculty in Japan, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations, a visiting researcher at Centre Américain, Sciences Po in Paris, France and a visiting professor at the Tata Institute for Disaster Management in Mumbai, India. He is a board member of the journals Asian Politics and Policy and Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy, and is a Mansfield U.S. Japan Network for the Future alumnus. He is the section organizer for the American Political Science Association's Disasters and Crises Related Group. Aldrich receivedhis Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Harvard University, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sothea Oum is an economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Jakarta, Indonesia. He joined ERIA in 2009 as an associate researcher after completing his Ph.D. in economics, specialized in computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, from Monash University, Australia, on full scholarships. At ERIA, he manages region-wide research projects on ASEAN and East Asian integration and community building process, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), social protection, disaster management, income distribution and poverty. He also holds an M.A in economics from Kobe University, Japan and a B.A from the National Economics University, Hanoi, Viet Nam, both on full scholarships from the governments of Japan and Vietnam, respectively.

Yasuyuki Sawada is a professor in