Overview
- Evaluates the current state of disaster relief globally
- Sheds light on the progress made so far in disaster relief endeavors across the world
- Provides an essential interdisciplinary text on disaster response
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- natural disasters
- disaster management
- disaster relief aid
- environmental management
- Human ecological tradition
- Biased relief distribution
- Good Humanitarian Donorship
- Post-Disaster Needs Assessment
- humanitarianism and volunteerism
- Acceptable list of necessary relief items
- Humanitarian Assistance
- Flow of Relief Aid and Pledge
- Ways to Improve Humanitarian Logistics
- Social Networks as Providers and Distributors of Disaster Relief
- Environmental Geography
About this book
Disaster Relief Aid: Changes and Challenges provides a comprehensive analysis of disaster relief efforts undertaken globally during the last several decades, and examines the changes and challenges that have emerged over time. The book evaluates the current state of disaster relief and discusses how it may be improved. The author examines salient features of disaster relief operations and provides an overview of the development of global humanitarian assistance programs. The book also explores how disaster aid is channelled from non-affected areas to affected areas. Using five major natural and man-made disasters as case studies, the book analyses the nature and extent of emergency relief efforts undertaken for each. The final chapter covers the post-disaster convergence phenomenon; outlines the major challenges of international disaster relief operation and finally, posits recommendations on how to improve future disaster relief efforts.
This isan essential interdisciplinary text on disaster response for both undergraduate and graduate students as well as an invaluable resource for disaster researchers, managers, and numerous international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international agencies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disaster Relief Aid
Book Subtitle: Changes and Challenges
Authors: Bimal Kanti Paul
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77282-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77281-3Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08418-9Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77282-0Published: 07 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 262
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Geography, Environment Studies, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology