The Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases - a strategy for regional health security

The Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases - a strategy for regional health security.

Emerging diseases pose a continuing threat to health security. In recent years, the Asia Pacific region has been an epicentre for many emerging diseases (including re-emerging and epidemic-prone diseases) resulting in substantial negative impacts on health, social and economic development. Some of these diseases are severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); avian influenza A(H5N1); dengue; Nipa...

A Regional Rice Strategy for Sustainable Food Security in Asia and the Pacific Final Edition

Pacific Regional Aid Strategy

Asia - Pacific Security Studies Defense Transformation and the Asia Pacific Implications for Regional Militaries

Currently, defense transformation is driven and enabled primarily by advances in information technologies (IT) and network-centric warfare. Key characteristics of a modern transformed force include: new command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR), networked with weapons and platforms; shared situational awareness; more accurate and standof...

Food and health considerations in Asia-Pacific regional security.

Recent dramatic increases in food prices in much of the world have caused much concern, and have even resulted in some public protests and riots. This is easy to understand given the large percentages of incomes that the poor devote to food purchases. Many commentators have predicted that food supplies in the Asia-Pacific region will become much more limited in the future as the result of popul...