Elsevier Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World

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. Review Examines the multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral impacts of COVID 19 in urban risk management From the Back Cover <p><i>Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World</i><i> </i>examines the pandemic’s global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. It shows how COVID19 intensified natural and anthropogenic hazards and destroyed years of communities. governments and development organizations investment and work. The book focuses on how disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in post-COVID 19 era. It examines the current governance practices implemented by nations across the globe, with special attention given to Asia’s more successful responses. It shows how the various sectors across the society were most impacted by the COVID 19, including tourism and food systems.</p> <p><i>Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World </i>is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners for understanding response, preparedness and future pathways for pandemic resilience.</p> About the Author Indrajit Pal is Assistant Professor of Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management at the Asian Institute of Technology. He has more than 16 years’ experience in researching, teaching, training, and consulting on disaster risk governance, incident command system, hazard and risk assessment, CBDRM, public health risk, disaster resilience, and DRR Education. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal papers, conference papers, and books. Rajib Shaw is Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Senior Fellow at Institute of Global Environmental Strategies, Chairperson of two Japanese NGOs, co-founder of a Delhi-based social entrepreneur startup Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy, and Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. He is Chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction, Co-Chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group, Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier’s “Progress in Disaster Science journal, and author of more than 300 academic papers and 45 books, including “Urban Risk Reduction: Asian Perspective (Elsevier).