The 21st Century has so far witnessed a host of large-scale disasters in various parts of the world including: windstorms, flooding, new diseases infesting both humans and animals, terrorist attacks and major disruptions to critical infrastructures. It is not just the nature of …
Both the frequency of large-scale disasters -- be they man-made events or natural hazards -- and the severity of the losses involved have increased since the late 1980s. There are strong reasons to expect this trend to continue. Events such as the attacks of September 11, 2001 i…
Both the frequency of large-scale disasters -- be they man-made events or natural hazards -- and the severity of the losses involved have increased since the late 1980s. There are strong reasons to expect this trend to continue. Events such as the attacks of September 11, 2001 i…
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Dramatic events, such as the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan Province in 2008 and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005, have brought the financial management of catastrophic risks once again to the forefront of the public policy agenda …
"The OECD has established an International Network on the Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes, which this publication supports the ongoing activitives of. [This book] contains three reports focusing on : different institutional approaches to the financial management…
Dramatic events, such as the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan Province in 2008 and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005, have brought the financial management of catastrophic risks once again to the forefront of the public policy agenda …
Catastrophe and the "Katrina Effect" / William M. Taylor and Michael P. Levine -- Reckoning : Disaster and Justice. The Effect of Katrina on Ideas of Justice / Naomi Zack ; New Orleans, 2005, and Port-au-Prince, 2010 : Some Reflections on Trans-American Disaster in the Twenty-fi…
"On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' l…
