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![National Economic Impact Analysis of Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters]()
National Economic Impact Analysis of Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters
Edited by Harry W. Richardson, Jiyoung Park, James E. Moore II, Qisheng Pan
This book develops a national economic impact model to estimate the effects of simulated terrorist attacks and natural disasters on individual US States and economic sectors. The model, called NIEMO (The National Interstate Economic Mod...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...eBook:Find out more$28.76
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Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm
Edited by Michael Faure, Andri Wibisana
This book deals with questions concerning the regulation of disasters, climate change and environmental harm in developing countries, focusing on the particular case of Indonesia and addressing regulatory problems from a multidisciplinar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Islands at Risk?
John Connell
This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Managing Food Safety and Hygiene
Bridget M. Hutter
Food safety and hygiene is of critical importance to us all, yet, as periodic food crises in various countries each year show we are all dependent on others in business and public regulation to ensure that the food we consume in the reta...eBook:Find out more$41.56
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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 is the first volume that addresses the complexities of the volcanic ash cloud that overshadowed Europe in April 2011, but has subsequently struck again in Australia, Chile and Europe. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Asian Tsunami
Sisira Jayasuriya, Peter McCawley
The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230 000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound]()
The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound
Edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina posed an unprecedented set of challenges to formal and informal systems of disaster response and recovery. Informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this study critically examine ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Disaster Law
Edited by Daniel A. Farber, Michael Faure
The field of disaster law has witnessed a huge surge in interest over the past few years. Building widespread recognition of the shortcomings of legal systems faced with disasters, academics have increasingly turned their attention to ex... -
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Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters
Edited by Matthias Ruth, María E. Ibarrarán
Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back develo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Natural Disaster Analysis after Hurricane Katrina
Edited by Harry W, Richardson, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II
This influential book explores the key policy implications arising from Hurricane Katrina. Leading scholars from fields as diverse as decision analysis, risk management, economics, engineering, transportation, urban planning and sociolog...
