266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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The number of humanitarian disasters triggered by a natural hazard has doubled every decade since the 1960s. At the same time, the global economic growth rate per capita is twice its 1960s value. Does this mean economic growth is independent of the impacts of natural disaster?
Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World is the first book to acknowledge the full implications of... Read more
Part I: Introduction 1. Paradigm of Risk Part II: Global Processes and Environmental Risk 2. Does Global Environmental Change cause Vulnerability to Disaster? 3. Changes in Capitalism and Global Shifts in the Distribution of Hazard and Vulnerability 4. Gender, Disaster and Development 5. Disasters, Costs and Adaptation in Developed and Developing Countries Part III: International Exchange and Vulnerability 6. Changing Actors: NGOs and the Private Sector 7. Disaster Diplomacy 8. The Insurance Industry: Can it Cope with Catastrophe? Part IV: Local Contexts and Global Pressures 9. The Social Construction of Disaster in UK and Egypt 10. Prevention or Cure for Catastrophic Events? Landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador 11. Community Level Disaster Mitigation: The Philippines 12. Flood Management and Regime Change in The Netherlands and Bangladesh 13. Unresolved Development Challenges: The Marmara Earthquake, Turkey 14. Ecological Reconstruction of the Upper Yangtze River, China Part V: Conclusion 15. Emerging Concerns
Biography
Mark Pelling
