Disasters

The Economics of Natural Disasters

Edited by Mark Skidmore

‘Economics is both political economy and empirical, and this distinction has not been lost in Professor Skidmore’s edited book on the economics of natural disasters. This collection strikes a good balance between quantitative and non-qua...

Hardback (2017)

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Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law

Edited by Susan C. Breau, Katja L.H. Samuel

‘Relying on a stellar list of contributors, this Handbook attempts to define disasters and analyses whether existing international law instruments adequately respond to disaster events in a range of different scenarios. It goes further t...

Hardback (2016)

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£48.00

Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900

John Singleton

In the wake of the global financial and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle – a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters – is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastro...

Hardback (2016)

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£25.00

Gender, Development and Disasters

Sarah Bradshaw

‘Once in a while a book is published which offers an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of an under-studied topic which helps to carve out a new field of enquiry. Such is the case with Dr Sarah Bradshaw’s breathtakingly deta...

Paperback (2014)

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£16.76

National Economic Impact Analysis of Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters

Edited by Harry W. Richardson, Jiyoung Park, James E. Moore II, Qisheng Pan

‘The NIEMO development effort is as ambitious as any in regional science. In addition to immense data handling issues faced are the numerous conceptual and theoretical hurdles these researchers have cleared so adeptly. The volume’s chapt...

Hardback (2014)

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Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm

Edited by Michael Faure, Andri Wibisana

‘In Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm Michael Faure and Andri Wibisana bring together insightful analyses of how developing countries can manage serious hazards. Natural disasters have long been threats to devel...

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Islands at Risk?

John Connell

This insightful book provides a wide ranging analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands and territories, through every ocean, and the small island states. It examines the decline of agr...

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Managing Food Safety and Hygiene

Bridget M. Hutter

‘One of the most thorough and considered studies we have of the relationship between regulation and business risk management practices. Food regulation provides a revealing canvas for understanding the dynamics of the governance of risk....

Paperback (2013)

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Hardback (2011)

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£23.20

Geopolitics of Foreign Aid

Edited by Helen V. Milner, Dean Tingley

Foreign aid remains a crucial policy tool of donor countries, and many countries throughout the world have been or continue to be recipients of aid. In this two-volume set, Professor Milner and Professor Tingley bring together the key pu...

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Governing Disasters

Edited by Alberto Alemanno

‘This comprehensive edited volume makes an important and much needed contribution to an increasingly important dimension of risk assessment and management, namely emergency risk regulation. Drawing upon the responses of government, busin...

Hardback (2011)

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The Asian Tsunami

Sisira Jayasuriya, Peter McCawley

‘The Asian Tsunami is designed for all those interested in the issues of aid delivery. However, I do suggest this book should also be essential reading for all politicians and journalists concerned with the issue.’ – Nicholas Newman, Oxf...

Hardback (2010)

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