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163726
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During World War II, members of the Imperial Japanese Army biological warfare Unit 731 conducted a live test deployment of plague-infected fleas in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. The deployment triggered an outbreak involving 165 cases in downtown Ningbo, 112 of which were fatal (68% case fatality rate). Despite lack of access to effective medical countermeasures, the Ningbo community exhibited a high degree of social cohesion and resilience in the context of effective public health response. These findings support the value of community preparedness and strong public health infrastructure to mitigate the impact of biological weapons.
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ID:
163395
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Refugee camps are often perceived as unproductive places that waste people’s potential. What is left unremarked in many refugee accounts, however, is the positive side of camps. Highlighting suffering alone raises academic curiosity as to what keeps camps in protracted situations going for so long. Drawing on the notion of social resilience, this article highlights the multidimensionality of camps as social worlds by showing how the attachment through kin-based networks between Somalis at Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya and their relatives in diaspora animated collective imaginaries about better futures in Minnesota. The article contributes to migration and humanitarian debates by arguing that refugee longings for onward migration is linked to places with a potential for kin-based support as opposed to random Western destinations, as is often highlighted in the media.
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ID:
113280
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2012.
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This article assimilates the city of Phnom Penh into an open system that has spread into the Mekong River flood plain with the backfilling of tidelands and the building of successive dykes. The city's hydraulic networks were damaged by the major crisis suffered under the Khmer Rouge characterized by a strong de-urbanization process. Since 1979, the progressive restoration of institutions, in addition to ad hoc interventions in the city's networks by 'pioneer actors', allowed vertical interactions in the city-system between stakeholders and structures to redevelop, and also permitted horizontal interactions between structures. Despite more recent crises, the city-system has proved resilient and it maintains its dualistic kernel-margins structure.
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ID:
103819
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Tokyo, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), 2010.
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358p.
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Report of the social resilience project October 2010
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 055893 | 330.9052/JAP 055893 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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