An introduction to neglected disasters
Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | An introduction to neglected disasters | |
| Creator | Wisner, Ben Gaillard, JC | |
| Description | This theme issue of Jàmbá takes up the question of neglected disasters. It is an important topic because the world is changing, disasters are changing, and theory is changing. All these changes call for a re-assessment of why some human suffering and social disruption receive attention from authorities, donors, researchers and the media, while some does not. Recent progress in both development studies and disaster studies provides tools for answering this question. Development and disaster studies date in their current forms to ways of thinking that were current in academic and policy circles in the late 1950s and 1960s. At that time the world was recovering from world war and former colonies of Europe were gaining independence. It was a world in which (with some exceptions) conflict was held in check in an uneasy cold war balance. It was also a world where a growing UN system held the promise of meeting humanitarian needs when they arose. That world is no more. ‘Development’ has changed. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2009-04-25 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/jamba.v2i3.23 | |
| Source | Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Vol 2, No 3 (2009); 151-158 2072-845X 1996-1421 | |
| Language | eng | |
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