Further Resources - Papers

WE ARE ALL VULNERABLE by John Handmer www.gs.rmit.edu.au/research/risk.htm

How natural are ‘natural disasters’? Vulnerability to drought in southern Namibia communal areas by Katiuscia Fara

A new earthquake in El Salvador and an Old Problem: Neoliberalism by Ben Wisner

Earthquakes in El Salvador and India - asking the right questions, finding the right solutions! by Denis Benn, Direct a.i. United Nations Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis, and Ben Wisner - At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability, and Disasters. London: Routledge, 1994. Chapter Eight “Earthquakes, volcanos and landslides”. With kind permission of Routledge

We all Know What Needs to be Done by Terry Jeggle

‘Physician heal thyself? The politics of disaster mitigation’ by John Twigg (after accessing the Benfield Grief site, click on Disaster Management)

Rohit Jigyasu, 'FROM 'NATURAL' TO 'CULTURAL' DISASTER: Consequences of Post-earthquake Rehabilitation Process on Cultural Heritage in Marathwada Region, India

Don Geis, 'Creating Disaster Resistant Societies and Cities' previously published in the Natural Hazards Review, a journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, U.S.A.

On Disasters and Democracy by David Alexander

Notes on Social Vulnerability: Categories, Situations, Capabilities, and Circumstances by Ben Wisner

Philip Buckle: Redefining community vulnerability in the context of emergency management

Philip Buckle: Assessing resilience and vulnerability in the context of emergencies: guidelines

Buckle, Marsh and Smale: New approaches to assessing vulnerability and resilience

Enarson Elaine, 2000. Gender and Natural Disasters. Working Paper No. 1. InFocus Programme on Crisis Response and Reconstruction. Geneva: ILO, Recovery and Reconstruction Department

Fordham Maureen, 2000 The Place of Gender in Earthquake Vulnerability and Mitigation

Handmer John and Wisner Ben, 1998 Hazards, Globalization and Sustainability. Conference Report.

Pelling Mark Social Capital, Sustainability and Natural Hazards in the Caribbean

Wisner Ben, 1997 A tale of two cities: urban hazard mitigation at the end of the 20th century

Wisner Ben, 2001 Capitalism and the shifting spatial and social distribution of hazard and vulnerability

Wisner Ben, "Disasters and Human Rights: Lessons from El Salvador and India", in the Christian Science Monitor

Wisner Ben, 1993 Disaster vulnerability: scale, power and daily life

Wisner Ben, 2000 From 'Acts of God' to 'Water Wars': the urgent analytical and policy role of political ecology in mitigating losses from flood: a view of South Africa from Central America

Wisner Ben, 1998 The geography of marginality and vulnerability: why the Tokyo homeless don't "count" in disaster preparedness

Wisner Ben, 1996 The reconstruction of environmental rights in urban South Africa

Wisner Ben, 1999 Why 2K? New challenges and new opportunities for managing natural hazards

Wisner Ben, 1998 World views, belief systems, and disasters: implications for preparedness, mitigation and recovery