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Organizing disaster : the construction of humanitarianism

Rostis, Adam - 2016

This book challenges the taken-for-granted status of organizations such as the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres, by problematizing humanitarianism. In the experience of the Author working with such organizations, they are selective of the type of suffering that receives attention....

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Lifelines: the resilient infrastructure opportunity

Hallegatte, Stéphanie; Rentschler, Jun; Rozenberg, Julie - Weltbank - 2019

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Does government ideology shake or shape the public finances? : empirical evidence of disaster assistance

Klomp, Jeroen - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 118 (2019), pp. 118-127

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Improving smallholders' food security and resilience to climate change in Burkina Faso : the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters programme (BRACED)

Herold, Jana - 2019

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How do natural disasters affect services trade?

Xu, Ankai; Kouwoaye, Amèvi Rocard - 2019 - Manuscript date: 6 December 2019

exports of the affected country but have ambiguous effects on its services imports. On average, a large natural disaster can … by a large natural disaster, with the negative impact on communications exports lasting for up to five years after a … disaster. We also find consistently across all estimations that the negative impact of natural disasters on services trade is …

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Bloated bodies and broken bricks : power, ecology, and inequality in the political economy of natural disaster recovery

Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Tan-Mullins, May; Abrahamse, Wokje - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 110 (2018), pp. 243-255

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Labor market impacts and responses : the economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster

Hoang Trung Xuan; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen … - 2019

This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...

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Economic impact of natural disasters : an empirical re-examination

Panwar, Vikrant; Sen, Subir - In: Margin: the journal of applied economic research 13 (2019) 1, pp. 109-139

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Home bias in humanitarian aid : the role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief

Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2019

Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), we show that substantially larger amounts of aid are disbursed when natural …

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Madeira Island : tourism, natural disasters and destination image

Almeida, António Manuel Martins de; Machado, Luiz Pinto - In: Climate change and global development : market, global …, (pp. 285-301). 2019

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