Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, political, and fiscal aspects of risk management, land-use planning and building code enforcement regulations, insurance issues, emergency management systems, and managing natural and manmade disasters.
This is an English-language anthology of Kurahashi Yumiko's short stories, whose subversive fiction defies established definitions of "literature, " "Japan, " "modernity" and "femininity, " and represents an important intellectual aspect of modern Japanese women's literature.
