Risk, shocks and human development: on the brink/ edited by Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Papa A Seck
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave, 2010Description: xvii, 385 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780230223905Subject(s): Psychic trauma | Stress | Disasters | Life change events--Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 362.1968521Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 362.1968521 HUE/R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P41072 |
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
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