Disasters And Development
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Disaster and Development
Author: Naim Kapucu
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2014-04-11
This book offers a systematic, empirical examination of the concepts of disasters and sustainable economic development applied to many cases around the world. It presents comprehensive coverage of the complex and dynamic relationship between disaster and development, making a vital contribution to the literature on disaster management, disaster resilience and sustainable development. The book collects twenty-three chapters, examining theoretical issues and investigating practical cases on policy, governance, and lessons learned in dealing with different types of disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods and hurricanes) in twenty countries and communities around the world.
Disasters and Development
Author: Frederick C. Cuny
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 1983
(Sponsored by Oxfam America)
Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing World
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.