Table of Contents

PART 1: OVERVIEW AND NATIONAL GOVERNANCE RESPONSE
1. COVID pandemic, global spread, issues and challenges
2. Governance in the era of cascading risks: building systemic, multi-hazard multi-sectoral resilience approaches to build back better from COVID-19
3. Enhancing Risk Governance and Sustainability in times of COVID-19: Experiences and Repercussions from Thailand
4. Pandemic in the land of the Smile: The case of Covid-19 Outbreak in Thailand in 2020
5. Governance of disaster risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Central America: the case of Guatemala
6. National Perspectives of COVID-19: Case of Sri Lanka
7. Extent and Appraisal of COVID 19 Pandemic, Risk Governance and Resilience in Pakistan
8. Epidemics and Pandemics Risk Governance: A case of post Covid-19 in the UK
9. Risk governance, resilience, and response against COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea
10. Sri Lanka’s fight against COVID – 19: a brief overview
11. COVID-19 Pandemic in the Arctic and Sub Arctic
12. National perspectives of COVID 19 in the Maldives
13. Global pandemic governance in China: some reflections
14. Reflections on Pandemic Governance in Japan

PART 2: CAPACITY AND RESPONSE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
15, The Rohingyas in Bangladesh: The 2020 Pandemic and the aftermath
16, Guesstimating the COVID-19 burden: what is the best model?
17, Effective Measures in COVID 19 Prevention in Vietnam
18. Pandemic Management in Mountainous Regions; Challenges and Opportunities
19. Redefining Vulnerability and Resilience from the lens of COVID -19: A case study of Indian state of Bihar for COVID-19 Management
20. Uttar Pradesh - State level governance and response in COVID19 pandemic
21.Development and Operationalization of Disaster Risk Management Framework for COVID-19 Pandemic: Quezon City Inclusive Unified Response, Recovery, and Rehabilitation Action Plan 2020-2030, Philippines
22. COVID 19 Risk governance in Megacities in Kolkata, India

PART 3: LIVELIHOODS
23. Village health volunteers response COVID-19 impact on fisheries and aquaculture in Thailand
24. Covid 19 reflections on response and resilience of agricultural food system value chain
25. Assessing the impact of COVID-19 to tourism and adaptation strategies – a case study in Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam
26. Positive externality matters in the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of women informal businesses in Pakistan
27. Impact of Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sectors of Ghana
28. COVID 19 National Response on Tourism Sector: A case study of Western Division of Vitilevu, Fiji Islands

PART 4: COMMUNITY, AWARENESS AND EDUCATION
29. Risk Management and Resilience of Schools in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
30. Disaster Resilience in Perspectives of Public Management, Human Adaptation, and Education for all in Thailand
31. Knowledge Gaps and Operational Challenges in Managing COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Post Pandemic Strategies in Multi-Disaster Contexts

PART 5: CONCLUSION
32. COVID-19 pandemic, risk reduction and resilience measures

About the Author

Dr. Indrajit Pal, an associate professor in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, brings over 21 years of expertise in disaster risk governance, hazard assessment, CBDRM, public health risk, and disaster resilience. With a distinguished background, he previously contributed to the Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India. Dr. Pal holds a pivotal role as a Board member of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), Japan, and serves as a Visiting Professor at Keio University. His advisory contributions extend to Disaster Risk Reduction for the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES). Dr. Pal is a prolific author and editor, with a portfolio of 15 books and over 180 peer-reviewed papers and chapters. Leading impactful projects in the Asia-Pacific region, his research focuses on risk characterization in Asian Delta communities and climate resilience in Lao PDR. Dr. Rajib Shaw is a professor at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance. He is also the Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan. He was previously the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and a Kyoto University Professor. Disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education are all areas of interest for him. Professor Shaw is the Chair of the UN Science Technology Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (STAG) and the Co-Chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He's also the CLA (Coordinating Lead Author) for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report's Asia chapter. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal "Progress in Disaster Science" published by Elsevier, as well as the series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has over 45 books to his credit, as well as over 300 scholarly papers and book chapters.