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In today's high-risk society, the importance of managing risk, disaster and crisis needs no further explanation. If the risk society implies an epochal shift, then how human beings live with risk, disaster and crisis is the most important and urgent theme of our time. This book is organized by the Centre for Social Risk and Public Crisis Management of Nanjing University, which is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of risk, disaster and crisis.