Authorative and comprehensive, this book makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, but underlies the di

This book offers a systematic, empirical examination of the concepts of disasters and sustainable economic development applied to many cases around the world. I

'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure

Displacements in the Asia Pacific region are escalating. The region has for decades experienced more than half of the world’s natural disasters and, in recent

Authorative and comprehensive, this book makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, but underlies the di