Handbook on the Economics of Disasters

Handbook on the Economics of Disasters
Title Handbook on the Economics of Disasters PDF eBook
Author Skidmore, Mark
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 515
Release 2022-10-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1839103736

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Evaluating the myriad dimensions of how disasters can affect economic activity and decision-making, this cutting-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars combine theoretical considerations with empirical methods to expand and improve the field of disaster mitigation.

The Social Roots of Risk

The Social Roots of Risk
Title The Social Roots of Risk PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Tierney
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 318
Release 2014-07-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0804791406

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“This book about risk and disaster—and how they get amplified—is fascinating and hugely important as we face an ever-more-turbulent world.” —Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable. The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences are singular events, driven by forces beyond our control. Instead, Kathleen Tierney contends that disasters of all types—be they natural, technological, or economic—are rooted in common social and institutional sources. Put another way, risks and disasters are produced by the social order itself—by governing bodies, organizations, and groups that push for economic growth, oppose risk-reducing regulation, and escape responsibility for tremendous losses when they occur. Considering a wide range of historical and looming events—from a potential mega-earthquake in Tokyo that would cause devastation far greater than what we saw in 2011, to BP’s accident history prior to the 2010 blowout—Tierney illustrates trends in our behavior, connecting what seem like one-off events to illuminate historical patterns. Like risk, human resilience also emerges from the social order, and this book makes a powerful case that we already have a significant capacity to reduce the losses that disasters produce. A provocative rethinking of the way that we approach and remedy disasters, The Social Roots of Risk leaves readers with a better understanding of how our own actions make us vulnerable to the next big crisis—and what we can do to prevent it. “Brilliant . . . Drawing on a trove of timely case studies, Tierney analyses how factors such as speculative finance and rampant development allow natural and economic blips to tip more easily into catastrophe.” —Nature

The Economics of Natural Disasters

The Economics of Natural Disasters
Title The Economics of Natural Disasters PDF eBook
Author Douglas C. Dacy
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1969
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Resilience and Urban Disasters

Resilience and Urban Disasters
Title Resilience and Urban Disasters PDF eBook
Author Kamila Borsekova
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 277
Release 2019
Genre City planning
ISBN 1788970101

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This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and economic shocks, Resilience and Urban Disasters explores a large range of tumultuous events and key case studies to thoroughly cover these core areas. In particular, the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters are explored.

The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters

The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters
Title The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters PDF eBook
Author Debarati Guha-Sapir
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 341
Release 2013-05-23
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199841934

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This work combines research and empirical evidence on the economic costs of disasters with theoretical approaches. It provides new insights on how to assess and manage the costs and impacts of disaster prevention, mitigation, recovery and adaption, and much more.

Handbook on the Economics of the Media

Handbook on the Economics of the Media
Title Handbook on the Economics of the Media PDF eBook
Author Robert G Picard
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 417
Release 2015-02-27
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0857938894

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Media industries and services present a complex set of challenges to economic analysis: challenges made more difficult by the technological changes that have been transforming the media sector. Research on the economics of media has made major advances

The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine
Title The Shock Doctrine PDF eBook
Author Naomi Klein
Publisher Metropolitan Books
Pages 721
Release 2010-04-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1429919485

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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.