TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pelling,Mark
TI  - Natural disasters and development in a globalizing world
SN  - 9780415279574
AV  - HD75 .N396 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I. INTRODUCTION --; Paradigms of risk; Mark Pelling --; PART II. GLOBAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK --; Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to disaster?; W. Neil Adger; Nick Brooks --; Changes in capitalism and global shifts in the distribution of hazard and vulnerability; Ben Wisner --; Gender, disaster and development: the necessity for integration; Maureen Fordham --; Natural disasters, adaptive capacity and development in the twenty-first century; Mohammed H.I. Dore; David Etkin --; PART III. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND VULNERABILITY --; Actors in risk; Ian Christoplos --; Beyond disaster, beyond diplomacy; Ilan Kelman --; Insurance industry: can it cope with catastrophe?; Julian E. Salt --; PART IV. LOCAL CONTEXTS AND GLOBAL PRESSURES --; Social construction of natural disaster: Egypt and the UK; Jacqueline Homan --; Understandings of catastrophe: the landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador; Arthur Morris --; Vulnerability reduction and the community-based approach: a Philippines study; Katrina Allen --; Risk regime change and political entrepreneurship: river management in the Netherlands and Bangladesh; Jeroen Warner --; Disaster as manifestation of unresolved development challenges: the Marmara earthquake, Turkey; Aplaslan Özerdem --; Ecological reconstruction of the upper reaches of the Yangtze river; Chen Guojie --; PART V. CONCLUSION --; Emerging concerns; Mark Pelling
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