Natural disasters and development in a globalizing world /
edited by Mark Pelling.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- xv, 250 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Paradigms of risk / Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to disaster? / Changes in capitalism and global shifts in the distribution of hazard and vulnerability / Gender, disaster and development: the necessity for integration / Natural disasters, adaptive capacity and development in the twenty-first century / Actors in risk / Beyond disaster, beyond diplomacy / Insurance industry: can it cope with catastrophe? / PART IV. LOCAL CONTEXTS AND GLOBAL PRESSURES -- Social construction of natural disaster: Egypt and the UK / Understandings of catastrophe: the landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador / Vulnerability reduction and the community-based approach: a Philippines study / Risk regime change and political entrepreneurship: river management in the Netherlands and Bangladesh / Disaster as manifestation of unresolved development challenges: the Marmara earthquake, Turkey / Ecological reconstruction of the upper reaches of the Yangtze river / PART V. CONCLUSION -- Emerging concerns / Mark Pelling -- W. Neil Adger, Nick Brooks -- Ben Wisner -- Maureen Fordham -- Mohammed H.I. Dore, David Etkin -- Ian Christoplos -- Ilan Kelman -- Julian E. Salt -- Jacqueline Homan -- Arthur Morris -- Katrina Allen -- Jeroen Warner -- Aplaslan Özerdem -- Chen Guojie -- Mark Pelling PART I. INTRODUCTION -- PART II. GLOBAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK -- PART III. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND VULNERABILITY --
0415279585 (pbk.) 0415279577
2002011567
GBA3-38057
Economic development.
Natural disasters.
Globalization.
HD75 / .N396 2003
363.34 / NAT
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Paradigms of risk / Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to disaster? / Changes in capitalism and global shifts in the distribution of hazard and vulnerability / Gender, disaster and development: the necessity for integration / Natural disasters, adaptive capacity and development in the twenty-first century / Actors in risk / Beyond disaster, beyond diplomacy / Insurance industry: can it cope with catastrophe? / PART IV. LOCAL CONTEXTS AND GLOBAL PRESSURES -- Social construction of natural disaster: Egypt and the UK / Understandings of catastrophe: the landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador / Vulnerability reduction and the community-based approach: a Philippines study / Risk regime change and political entrepreneurship: river management in the Netherlands and Bangladesh / Disaster as manifestation of unresolved development challenges: the Marmara earthquake, Turkey / Ecological reconstruction of the upper reaches of the Yangtze river / PART V. CONCLUSION -- Emerging concerns / Mark Pelling -- W. Neil Adger, Nick Brooks -- Ben Wisner -- Maureen Fordham -- Mohammed H.I. Dore, David Etkin -- Ian Christoplos -- Ilan Kelman -- Julian E. Salt -- Jacqueline Homan -- Arthur Morris -- Katrina Allen -- Jeroen Warner -- Aplaslan Özerdem -- Chen Guojie -- Mark Pelling PART I. INTRODUCTION -- PART II. GLOBAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK -- PART III. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND VULNERABILITY --
0415279585 (pbk.) 0415279577
2002011567
GBA3-38057
Economic development.
Natural disasters.
Globalization.
HD75 / .N396 2003
363.34 / NAT