Political Economy of Large Natural Disasters

With Special Reference to Developing Countries

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

Av J. M. Albala-Bertrand, University of London) Albala-Bertrand, J. M. (Lecturer in Economics, Lecturer in Economics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, J M Albala-Bertrand

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This book sets out to develop a new framework for the analysis of disaster situations in developing countries. In doing so, it challenges many of the accepted wisdoms of disaster theory upon which policy prescriptions are built.The author insists that although disasters are a problem of development, they are not necessarily a problem for development. What we should be looking at are the underlying social and economic processes within developing countries which structure the impact of natural disasters, rather than at disasters as unforeseen events requiring large scale intervention.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-03-25
Mått162 x 242 x 18 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor270
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198287650

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Part 1 Analytical framework: natural disasters; disaster situation; disaster impact; disaster responses; systemic processes - closed and open. Part 2 Disaster statistics and patterns: data sources - institutional problems; disaster assessment - the unreliability of figures; global patterns and trends; sectoral patterns of direct effects; patterns of response sources. Part 3 The effects of disaster situations on economic aggregates: a sample of disaster situations; analysis; methodology; main performance aggregates; investment and sectoral outputs; public finance; balance of payments; conclusions. Part 4 Vulnerability: physical vulnerability - description; social vulnerability - processes; overall vulnerability; conclusion. Part 5 Indirect disaster effects and in-built responses: disarticulation of household conditions; disarticulation of the states of health and nutrition; disarticulation of the economic circuit; disarticulation of public activities. Part 6 Disaster response motivations: individual relief motivation; public motivation; international motivation. Part 7 Final effects on output - a simple macromodel: main rules of natural disasters; overall effect of capital loss on aggregate output; overall effect of disaster response on aggregate output; speed of recovery; Undro's "ECLA Estimate". Part 8 Effects of disaster situations on economy and society: a record of studies and some evidence; general observations about effects.

`The Political Economy of Large Natural Disasters is an impressive piece of work. It is a provocative, revisionist contribution to the study of the economics of disaster, a subject of coming importance ... required reading for officials and those associated with relief agencies ... the volume also offers material to social scientists anxious to apply public choice theory constructs to the analysis of policy formulation and application in developing societies.'Latin American Studies