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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fuentes Nieva, Ricardo[Herausgeber]
• Seck, Papa Abdoulaye[Herausgeber]

Titel

Risk, shocks, and human development : on the brink

Ort / Verlag

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Risk, poverty, and human development : what do we know, what do we need to know? / Stefan Dercon -- Shocks that cheat its survivors : disasters and long-term development / Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva -- Methods for microeconometric risk and vulnerability assessment / John Hoddinott and Agnes Quisumbing -- The impact of natural shocks on children morbidity in rural Mexico / Alejandro de la Fuente and Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva -- The effects of earthquakes on children and human development in rural El Salvador / Inhira V. Santos -- The short- and medium-term human development effects of climate-related shocks : some empirical evidence / Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and Papa A. Seck -- The effects of mortality shocks on household spending on education, health and nutrition / Damir Cosic and Partha Deb -- Intergenerational effects of the 1959-61 China famine / Winnie Fung and Wei Ha -- Evidence on the link between migration, climate shocks, and adaptive capacity / Liliana Carvajal and Isabel Pereira -- Natural hazards and unnatural disasters : a survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief / Roshni R. Menon -- Public responses to natural disasters : what has been done and what else could be done / Alejandro de la Fuente -- Conclusion : exploring the interface between private mechanisms and public policies : a challenge for research / Papa A. Seck