TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bertrand, J.M. Albala
TI  - Political economy of large natural disasters with special reference  to development  countries
SN  - 9780198287650
U1  - 338.9 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon Press
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Economic Aspects
KW  - Underdeveloped Economies
KW  - Economics
N1  - 1 Analytical framework
1 Natural disasters
2 Disaster situation
3 Disaster impact
4 Disaster responses
5 Interference

2 Disaster statistics and patterns
1 Data sources: institutional problems
2 Disaster assessment: the unreliability of figures
3 Global patterns and trends
4 Sectoral patterns of direct effects
5 Patterns of response sources

3 Effects of disaster situations on macroeconomic variables
1 A sample of disaster situations
2 Analysis
3 Methodology
4 Main performance aggregates
5 Investment and sectoral outputs
6 Public finance
7 Balance of payments
8 conclusions

4 Vulnerability
1 Physical vulnerability: description
2 Social vulnerability: processes
3 Overall vulnerability
4 Conclusion

5 Indirect disaster effects and in-built responses
1 Disarticulation of household conditions
2 Disarticulation of the states of health and nutrition
3 Disarticulation of the economic circuit
4 Disarticulation of public activities

6 Disaster response motivation
1 Individual relief motivation
2 Public motivation
3 International motivation
4 Public and international decision processes

7 Final effects on output: a simple macromodel
1 Main rules of natural disasters
2 Overall effect of capital loss on aggregate output
3 Overall effect of disaster response on aggregate output
4 Speed of recovery
5 UNDRO's  'ECLA Estimate'

8 Effects of disaster situations on economy and society
1 A record of studies and some evidence
2 General observations about effects
ER  -