Carl Jaeger, Carlo Jaeger, Carlo C. Jaeger, Peijun Shi, Qian Ye Integrated Risk Governance
Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters English · Paperback / Softback

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"Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters" is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. It consists of two parts: Part I: Integrated Risk Governance Project Science Plan, which outlines the challenge, research programme, outcomes, and implementation strategy of the IRG Project; and Part II: Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters, which includes case analyses of experience, lessons learned and recommendations on various large-scale disasters around the world, such as the Tangshan and Wenchuan earthquakes and the great ice storm in China, European heat waves, and Hurricane Katrina in the USA. The community model of integrated natural disaster risk governance and paradigm of catastrophe risk governance in China are also presented.
Prof. Peijun Shi works at Beijing Normal University, China; Prof. Carlo Jaeger works at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany; Prof.Qian Ye works at Beijing Normal University, China.

About the author

Dr. Carlo C. Jaeger ist Professor für Soziologie an der Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt und Leiter der Abteilung Humanökologie an der EAWAG, einer Forschungsanstalt des ETH-Bereichs in der Schweiz.