...Gerry van Klinken Purpose This paper focuses on the adaptations societies make to climate-related disasters. How they learnt from them in the past should indicate how they will respond in the more climate-stressed future. National typhoon disaster politics arise when citizens demand disaster...

... effects of indiscriminate dumping of household waste into the waterway. It was also a big challenge convincing some members of the community who felt that floods are a natural phenomenon unstoppable by man. Politics Local/non local knowledge sharing Receptiveness/reticence Collaboration...

... are able to negotiate with politics, representation, and meaning through the disaster and vulnerability challenges they face, often through no fault of their own. In his review paper, Ilan Kelman discusses a key issue of edited volumes. Questioning rightfully the uneven regional representation...

...Reviewed by Ilan Kelman Disasters Politics Disaster risk reduction Humanitarian aid The nine chapters present an intriguing journey through hazards, vulnerabilities, risks, and disasters crossing, or being forced to cross, borders. Altruism, climate change, game playing, and media...

...David Weir Governments of all political complexions seek economic advantage through supporting high profile projects in the field of high technology. “High tech” becomes a mantra, comprising activities with a wide range of possible outcomes, inevitably demanding large investments, and promising...

... parts of the world. This is not merely an ethical issue –although believes that the morality of caring is much in need of an uplift, both in British society and elsewhere – it is a pragmatic and political necessity. Confines discussion to looking at conflicts at the levels where they involve communities...

...S. Barakat; A. Strand Owing to the nature of their funding, hardly any NGO projects in Afghanistan have been long term or geared to the future development of the country. “Donor fatigue” and the fact that much of the previous aid was politically motivated, has led NGOs to begin to question...

...R. Green In Britain in 1945, the politics of peace steered reconstruction towards a static socio‐economic base from which stemmed many later planning and social problems. Britain had emerged from six years of war economically weakened but with a clear social vision, an effective administration...

.... The relevant disaster research literature is utilized to explain the response of the EOC personnel and the media. Reliance on normal time roles explains the EOC response to blame assignation. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Community relations Disaster recovery Emergency services Influence Media Politics...