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impact of other hazards, such as a biological event or pandemic. -- Intended for business practitioners, real world operators …
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This important book tackles some of the main security challenges facing the international development community today. Containing contributions by leading experts, including some who have been at the centre of the international policy debate, it goes further by putting forward suggestions and...
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This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable...
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Introduction : uncertainty and discovery in a post-disaster context / Emily Camlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr … ; Uncertainty in the post-Katrina Big Easy / Adam Martin -- The use of knowledge in natural disaster relief management / Russel S … ; Entrepreneurship and social networks in post-disaster environments / Petrik Runst -- Rock me like a hurricane! : how music communities …
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industrial states. It provides examples of how flood risk management, disaster and emergency management, and adaptation to …
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Barry R. Weingast (1995), 'Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China', World Politics, 48 … Systems', World Politics, 54 (4), July, 494-531 -- Bernd Huber and Marco Runkel (2008), 'Interregional Redistribution and … Economic Review, 42, 583-92 -- Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout (2007), 'On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance …
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1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great …A crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors … Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural …
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Contents: Part I: Methodology and disaster impact analysis -- 1. Blessing in disguise - long-run benefits of urban … change: an agent-based simulation of recovery from a disaster / A. Yair Grinberger, Daniel Felsenstein -- Index. … qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and …
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Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras', World Development, 35 (5), May, 835-56 -- Adam Rose, Juan Benavides, Stephanie E. Chang …), 'Small Island Developing States and Their Economic Vulnerabilities', World Development, 23 (9), September, 1615-32 -- Mark … Pelling and Juha I. Uitto (2001), 'Small Island Developing States: Natural Disaster Vulnerability and Global Change', Global …
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, Kaleckians and other heterodox economists from the developed and developing world. Post Keynesian literature has long been …
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