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JC Gaillard is Associate Professor at the School of Environment of the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests include disaster risk reduction (DRR); participatory tools for DRR; marginalization and DRR with focus on ethnicity, gender minorities, children, prisoners and homeless people; small and neglected disasters; livelihood assessment and strengthening in DRR; and post-disaster resettlement. Full profile available from: https://jcgaillard.wordpress.com
This essay provides a brief look at the Philippines experience as a means of highlighting the interplay between disaster risk reduction and politics with regard to disaster diplomacy across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions and beyond.
