Chen Gang is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. His publications include
China´s Climate Policy and
Politics of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress. He provides consultancy for the Singapore government on political and environmental issues in East Asia. He is frequently interviewed by media like
The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, BBC, NHK, and Xinhua News Agency.
In China´s 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics of China´s disaster management. It analyses the factors in China´s governance and political process that restrains its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in modern China´s disaster politics, with special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization and fragmentation.
1. Natural Disaster Management in Ancient China
2. From ROC to PRC: Modernization of China´s Disaster Management
3. The Reform Era: Institutional Changes and Evolution of Norms
4. Bureaucratic Politics at the Central Level
5. Central vs Local
6. Military Forces in China´s Disaster Management
7. New Challenges from Popular Politics: NGOs, Commercial Organizations, Social Media, and Civic Society
8. "Reform 2.0”: Progress and Limits
9. China´s Natural Disaster Management: Implications for Non-democratic Governance
In China's 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players.
In China's 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics of China's disaster management. It analyses the factors in China's governance and political process that restrains its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in modern China's disaster politics, with special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization and fragmentation.
1. Natural Disaster Management in Ancient China.- 2. From ROC to PRC: Modernization of China's Disaster Management.- 3. The Reform Era: Institutional Changes and Evolution of Norms.- 4. Bureaucratic Politics at the Central Level.- 5. Central vs Local.- 6. Military Forces in China's Disaster Management.- 7. New Challenges from Popular Politics: NGOs, Commercial Organizations, Social Media, and Civic Society.- 8. "Reform 2.0": Progress and Limits.- 9. China's Natural Disaster Management: Implications for Non-democratic Governance.
Chen Gang is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. His publications include
China's Climate Policy and
Politics of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress. He provides consultancy for the Singapore government on political and environmental issues in East Asia. He is frequently interviewed by media like
The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, BBC, NHK, and Xinhua News Agency.
Über den Autor
Chen Gang is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. His publications include China's Climate Policy and Politics of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress. He provides consultancy for the Singapore government on political and environmental issues in East Asia. He is frequently interviewed by media like The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, BBC, NHK, and Xinhua News Agency.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Natural Disaster Management in Ancient China.- 2. From ROC to PRC: Modernization of China's Disaster Management.- 3. The Reform Era: Institutional Changes and Evolution of Norms.- 4. Bureaucratic Politics at the Central Level.- 5. Central vs Local.- 6. Military Forces in China's Disaster Management.- 7. New Challenges from Popular Politics: NGOs, Commercial Organizations, Social Media, and Civic Society.- 8. "Reform 2.0": Progress and Limits.- 9. China's Natural Disaster Management: Implications for Non-democratic Governance.
Klappentext
In China's 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics of China's disaster management. It analyses the factors in China's governance and political process that restrains its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in modern China's disaster politics, with special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization and fragmentation.
1. First book to capture the latest institutional and norm changes related to the 2011 reform, which reinforced government dominance in relief work and reshaped central-local and state-society relationship in disaster management.
2. Focuses on specific institutional reforms and underlining political and socioeconomic implications, with detailed deillegalscription and analysis of China's complicated disaster management bureaucracy and related legal system.
3. Highlights the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in managing disasters.
4. Discusses the interaction among different stakeholders within and outside the state apparatus, which covers a wide range of institutional players like the central government, local governments at various levels, ministries, the military, government-organized NGOs, companies, the media, and civil organizations.
5. Provides vivid case studies and deep-going analysis to reveal the complexity of China's formal and informal politics related to disaster management, in which all these interest groups and social organizations are interacting with one another in a new institutional environment.
