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9780203402375

Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203402375

  • ISBN10:

    0203402375

  • Copyright: 2004-06-18
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Authorative and comprehensive, this book makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, but underlies the difficulty of attributing blame for individual disasters on specific global pressures.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Paradigm of Risk
Global Processes and Environmental 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
Disasters, Costs and Adaptation in Developed and Developing Countries
International Exchange and Vulnerability
Changing Actors: NGOs and the Private Sector
Disaster Diplomacy
The Insurance Industry: Can it Cope with Catastrophe?
Local Contexts and Global Pressures
The Social Construction of Disaster in UK and Egypt
Prevention or Cure for Catastrophic Events? Landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador
Community Level Disaster Mitigation: The Philippines
Flood Management and Regime Change in The Netherlands and Bangladesh
Unresolved Development Challenges: The Marmara Earthquake, Turkey
Ecological Reconstruction of the Upper Yangtze River, China
Conclusion
Emerging Concerns
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