Mark Pelling

Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World" 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. It argues that action to reduce disaster needs to 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780415279574
• ISBN-10: 0415279577
• Artikelnr.: 21664455

Autorenporträt

Mark Pelling

Inhaltsangabe

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