Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing WorldMark Pelling The number of humanitarian disasters triggered by a natural hazard has doubled every decade since the 1960s. At the same time, the global economic growth rate per capita is twice its 1960s value. Does this mean economic growth is independent of the impacts of natural disaster? Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World is the first book to acknowledge the full implications of globalization for disaster and development. The contributors to this book fully examine:
In his revealing work, author Pelling makes clear the links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, and underlies the difficulty of attributing blame for individual disasters on specific global pressures. He argues that action to reduce disaster must be coordinated at the local, national and global scales and that there is a need for greater integration across the physical and social sciences. In this context, the human rights agenda is seen as a way of moving disaster reduction efforts forward. |
Contents
PART III | 14 |
Paradigms of risk | 15 |
Changes in capitalism and global shifts in the distribution | 43 |
the necessity for integration | 57 |
Natural disasters adaptive capacity and development in | 75 |
Actors in risk | 95 |
Beyond disaster beyond diplomacy | 110 |