Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World

by Pelling,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780415279581
• ISBN10: 0415279585
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-04-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 globalization for disaster and development. The contributors to this book fully examine:- global processes and how they might affect disaster risk at the global scale.- links between international issues - such as diplomatic relations, the growth of non-governmental organizations and the health of the international insurance industry - and disaster risk- the interaction of these large scale forces with local conditions through case study analysis of individual disaster events.In his revealing work, author Pelling makes clear the links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, and underlies the difficulty of attributing blame for individual disasters on specific global pressures. He argues that action to reduce disaster must be coordinated at the local, national and global scales and that there is a need for greater integration across the physical and social sciences. In this context, the human rights agenda is seen as a way of moving disaster reduction efforts forward.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
List of boxes	ix
List of contributors	x
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvi
PART I Introduction	1	(16)
Paradigms of risk	3	(14)
Mark Pelling
PART II Global processes and environmental risk	17	(76)
Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to disaster?	19	(24)
W. Neil Adger
Nick Brooks
Changes in capitalism and global shifts in the distribution of hazard and vulnerability	43	(14)
Ben Wisner
Gender, disaster and development: the necessity for integration	57	(18)
Maureen Fordham
Natural disasters, adaptive capacity and development in the twenty-first century	75	(18)
Mohammed H.I. Dore
David Etkin
PART III International exchange and vulnerability	93	(46)
Actors in risk	95	(15)
Ian Christoplos
Beyond disaster, beyond diplomacy	110	(14)
Ilan Kelman
The insurance industry: can it cope with catastrophe?	124	(15)
Julian E. Salt
PART IV Local contexts and global pressures	139	(92)
The social construction of natural disaster: Egypt and the UK	141	(16)
Jacqueline Homan
Understandings of catastrophe: the landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador	157	(13)
Arthur Morris
Vulnerability reduction and the community-based approach: a Philippines study	170	(15)
Katrina Allen
Risk regime change and political entrepreneurship: river management in the Netherlands and Bangladesh	185	(14)
Jeroen Warner
Disaster as manifestation of unresolved development challenges: the Marmara earthquake, Turkey	199	(15)
Alpaslan Ozerdem
Ecological reconstruction of the upper reaches of the Yangtze river	214	(17)
Chen Guojie
PART V Conclusion	231	(13)
Emerging concerns	233	(11)
Mark Pelling
Index	244