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Author:   J. M. Albala-Bertrand (Lecturer in Economics, Lecturer in Economics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780198287650

ISBN 10:   0198287658
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   25 March 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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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.... --Latin American Studies<br>

'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

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