A special issue of Disasters, guest-edited by Professor Miwa Hirono, has been published.

News June 19, 2024

A special issue of Disasters, a leading international journal in the field of disaster studies, guest-edited by Professor Miwa Hirono, has been published.

This is a result of a joint research project funded by Ritsumeikan’s Asia-Japan Research Institute, entitled “Locally-led Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance in Asia”, which GLA and ANU faculties and other experts collaborated.

1. 　Miwa Hirono and Muhammad Riza Nurdin, "Local knowledge as the basis of disaster management and humanitarian assistance", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12634

2.　Muhammad Riza Nurdin, "Islamic faith-based organisations and their role in building social capital for post-disaster recovery in Indonesia", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12635

3.　Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, "The significance of local government in disaster management for international migrants: the case of Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12636

4.　Miwa Hirono, "Diasporas as a linchpin in local and international humanitarian action: a case study of the Chinese in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12633

5.　Maria Tanyag, " ‘Forgotten crises’ as forgotten sites of knowledge production for building lasting peace", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12632

6.　Caroline Reeves, "Plague and local response in North China, 1900–28", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12629

7.　Gian Powell B. Marquez and Ronald Dionnie Olavides, "Integrating science-based and local ecological knowledge: a case study of mangrove restoration and rehabilitation projects in the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12630

8.　Daniel Moritz Marutschke, Muhammad Riza Nurdin, and Miwa Hirono, “Quantifying social capital creation in post-disaster recovery aid in Indonesia: methodological innovation by an AI-based language model", https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12631

A special issue of Disasters, guest-edited by Professor Miwa Hirono, has been published.

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