"Combining the experiences of ordinary people with urban politics and history, [this book] challenges the long-held myth that the [18 April,]1906 [earthquake and fire] disaster erased social differences as it leveled the city. Highlighting new evidence from San Francisco's relie…
"In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have prepared for and responded to recent cataclysms. The book's principal focus is the increasing trend to rely on the private sector t…
Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at different levels of management and practices to collectively reduce the risk. While school education forms the foundations of the kno…
Wie können Wertschöpfungs- und Marktprozesse bei Gütern, die aufgrund ethischer Kriterien Menschen unabhängig ihrer finanziellen Möglichkeiten zugänglich sein sollen, nach ökonomischen Optimalitätskriterien gestaltet werden? Diese Frage stellt sich vor allem bei Gütern, die der …
"In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than twenty-five hundred responses, and…
Medical humanitarianism--medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster--has a prominent and growing presence in international development, global health, and human security interventions. [This book] features twelve …
