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1. Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

   Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

   Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst

   Series: Routledge Humanitarian Studies

   Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mapping Vulnerability

   Disasters, Development and People

   By Greg Bankoff, Dorothea Hilhorst, George Frerks

   Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters...

   Published December 31st 2003 by Routledge