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)
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, 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