Product Description: This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia’s urban populations from a governance perspective. It adopts a multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approach to disaster governance that emphasises the importance of multiple stakeholders in preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters and their cascading impacts in Asia’s cities...read more

Product Description: This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance and value of civic space, arguing that civic spaces provide not only the physical sites for civil society to function autonomously; but also provide a sense of place in the form of identity, meaning, memory, history and linkages with the wider world...read more

Product Description: The global age of migration is fast becoming a permanent feature of Japanese life, impacting the country's economic, social and political landscape. The 12 essays collected here bring together research on foreign workers and households from a variety of perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In an era of the globalization of finance, production and distribution networks, cities have become increasingly competitive. The business environments preferred by such international investment impact on the lives of citizens, on urban spaces, services, amenities and infrastructure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the role of culture in the urban transformation of Asian cities. Departing from the strictly economic treatment of urbanization that dominates urban geography, Kim draws on both comparative analysis and individual studies of major cities in the region to demonstrate the pervasive influence of culture on Asian urbanization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)