"Queen Lili'uokalani, the last monarch of Hawai'i, was forced to abdicate and faced the annexation of her homeland. American poet H.D. wrote through the London blitz and during the years of less regular bombing. Italian novelist and art critic Anna Banti lost the manuscript of h…
by OECD
fromOECD reviews of risk management policies
The need to ‘disaster proof’ development is increasingly recognised by development agencies, as is the need to engender both development and disaster response. This unique book explores what these processes mean for development and disasters in practice. Sarah Bradshaw critica…
Disaster research owes a lot to development studies and yet the debt is often not acknowledged. In this scholarly but accessible book by Sarah Bradshaw, we see a very effective linking of gender, disaster and development that will be of value to academics and practitioners worki…
The civilization known for its historical triumphs is seen through the eyes of the enormous disasters they also suffered, including the battle of Cannae, which saw the loss of fifty-thousand soldiers in a single day, Pompeii, and the bubonic plague.
