The author sets out to develop a new framework for the analysis of disaster situations in developing countries and challenges many of the accepted wisdoms of disaster theory upon which policy prescriptions are built.
The author sets out to develop a new framework for the analysis of disaster situations in developing countries and challenges many of the accepted wisdoms of disaster theory upon which policy prescriptions are built.
Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince...
Hurricane Agnes struck the United States in June of 1972, just months before a pivotal election and at the dawn of the deindustrialization period across the Northeast. The response by local, state,...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
The importance of this book, translated for the first time in 1983, lies not so much in List's advocacy of the fiscal policy of protection as in the relatively new doctrines that he put forward. He...