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Vulnerability and disasters

Publications

  • The Creation of Cultures of Risk

    2008
    Political and commercial decisions as causes of vulnerability for others
    An Anthology. September

  • The artist as witness: Zainul Abedin and the Bengal Famine of 1943

    2008
    RADIX 18.1.09

  • Continuum or Contiguum? Development for survival and vulnerability reduction

    2001
    Paper presented: Session VI: Disaster and Development - a vital connection
    5th ESA Conference Helsinki September

  • Development in Disaster-prone Places: Studies in Vulnerability

    1999
    IT Publications, London
    Electronic format forthcoming (Practical Action March 2013)

    Includes five case studies of vulnerability description and analysis:

    • Volcano in Tonga
    • Some perspectives on natural disaster vulnerability in Tonga
    • A multi-hazard history of Antigua
    • Vulnerability to a cyclone: Damage distribution in Sri Lanka
    • Change, and vulnerability to a natural hazard: Chiswell, Dorset.

  • Vulnerability reduction, Survival and Sustainability: What kind of Development ?

    1994
    Seminar: Civil Strife and Relief: Within the Context of the Continuum from Relief to Development
    Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

  • Vulnerability Reduction in Development for Human Settlements

    1992
    pp 93-118
    Proceedings of the Seminar "Training for Disaster Reduction II", Cairo, 1991
    UNESCO/DERC

  • "Them and Us": Emergency planning and response in a social perspective

    1992
    Hazard Management and Emergency Planning: Perspectives in Britain
    Chapter 13 (pp195-202)
    (Parker, Dennis; Handmer, John: Eds) James & James

  • Affordability and participation, need and vulnerability: Post-cyclone rehousing in Tonga

    1989
    Sixth Inter-schools Conference on Development
    Centre for Development Planning Studies University of Sheffield

  • Disasters, Homelessness and Reconstruction: Projections for vulnerability reduction

    1988
    Open House International 13/2
    Centre for Architectural Research and Development (CARDO), The University of Newcastle upon Tyne

  • Commentary: Report on Reports

    1988
    Environment
    Washington DC July/August pp3-4.
    (White, Gilbert F: Ed)

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