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Summary and looking ahead [In Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies]

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  • Chen, Kevin Z.
  • Hsu, Claire

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This book focuses on how China’s disaster management system— which is dedicated to the prevention, relief, and reconstruction efforts, carried out by the entire society, associated with the occurrence of natural hazards— performed during the Wenchuan earthquake. After briefly describing in Chapter 1 the earthquake’s effects, the government’s response, the evolution of China’s disaster management system, and the increasing attention paid by China’s government to disaster management in recent years, the remainder of the book focuses on key policy innovations throughout the disaster management process and system. It also covers the problems encountered, such as inadequate preparedness, misuse of funds, preference for short-term infrastructure projects over other projects that could better alleviate poverty, and inefficient allocation of funds. Below we summarize the key findings of the analysis of the relief and reconstruction efforts.

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  • Chen, Kevin Z. & Hsu, Claire, 2016. "Summary and looking ahead [In Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies]," IFPRI book chapters, in: Chen, Kevin Z. & Zhang, Qiang & Hsu, Claire (ed.), Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies, chapter 6, pages 115-120, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Zhan, Yue & Chen, Kevin Z., 2021. "Building resilient food system amidst COVID-19: Responses and lessons from China," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 190(C).
    2. Baofeng Di & Jierui Li & Miranda Dandoulaki & Ana Maria Cruz & Ruixin Zhang & Zhipan Niu, 2020. "Household recovery strategies in Longmen Mountain area, Sichuan, China, following the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake disaster," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 104(1), pages 123-137, October.

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