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xv, 250 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. PART I. INTRODUCTION -- Paradigms of risk / Mark Pelling -- PART II. GLOBAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK -- Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to disaster? / W. Neil Adger, Nick Brooks -- Changes in capitalism and global shifts in the distribution of hazard and vulnerability / Ben Wisner -- Gender, disaster and development: the necessity for integration / Maureen Fordham -- Natural disasters, adaptive capacity and development in the twenty-first century / Mohammed H.I. Dore, David Etkin -- PART III. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND VULNERABILITY -- Actors in risk / Ian Christoplos -- Beyond disaster, beyond diplomacy / Ilan Kelman -- Insurance industry: can it cope with catastrophe? / Julian E. Salt -- PART IV. LOCAL CONTEXTS AND GLOBAL PRESSURES -- Social construction of natural disaster: Egypt and the UK / Jacqueline Homan -- Understandings of catastrophe: the landslide at La Josefina, Ecuador / Arthur Morris -- Vulnerability reduction and the community-based approach: a Philippines study / Katrina Allen -- Risk regime change and political entrepreneurship: river management in the Netherlands and Bangladesh / Jeroen Warner -- Disaster as manifestation of unresolved development challenges: the Marmara earthquake, Turkey / Aplaslan Özerdem -- Ecological reconstruction of the upper reaches of the Yangtze river / Chen Guojie -- PART V. CONCLUSION -- Emerging concerns / Mark Pelling edited by Mark Pelling. Includes bibliographical references and index. Economic development Natural disasters Globalization HD75 .N396 2003 363.34 NAT 0415279585 (pbk.) 0415279577 2002011567 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2002011567-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2002011567-d.html DLC 020719 20140815120842.0 12861368