TY - BOOK AU - Fuentes Nieva, Ricardo, ed. AU - Seck, Papa A., ed. TI - Risk, shocks and human development: on the brink SN - 9780230223905 U1 - 362.1968521 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave KW - Psychic trauma KW - Stress KW - Disasters KW - Life change events--Psychological aspects N1 - Introduction Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and Papa A. Seek Part I Conceptual Framework 1. Risk, Poverty, and Human Development; What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know? 2. Shocks that Cheat its Survivors: Disasters and Long-term Development 3. Methods for Microeconomics Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Part II Empirical Evidence 4. The Impact of Natural Shocks on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico 5 The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural Effects Salvador 6 The Short- and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks; Some Empirical Evidence 7 Impact of extreme climate events on education attainment: Evidence from cross section data and welfare projection 8. The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition 9 Inter generational Effects of the 1959-61 China Famine 10 Part III Behavioral and Policy Responses 10. Evidence on the Link between Migration, Climate Shocks, and Adaptive Capacity 11. Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia 12. Natural Hazards and Unnatural Disasters: A Survey of the Gendered Terrain of Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Relief\ 13. Public Responses to Natural Disasters: What Has been and What Else Could Be Done conclusion ER -