
Disasters Without Borders
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Written in an accessible and even-handed manner, Disasters withoutBorders it is the first comprehensive account of the keymilestones, debates, controversies and research relating to theinternational politics of natural disasters. Tracing the historicalevolution of this policy field from its humanitarian origins in WWIright up to current efforts to cast climate change as the primeglobal driver of disaster risk, it highlights the ongoing mismatchbetween the way disaster has been conceptualised and theinstitutional architecture in place to manage it. The book'sbold conclusion predicts the confluence of four emerging trends -politicisation/militarisation, catastrophic scenario building,privatisation of risk, and quantification, which could create a newsystem of disaster management wherein 'insurance logic' willreplace humanitarian concern as the guiding principle.
Disasters Without Borders is an ideal introductory textfor students, lecturers and practitioners in the fields ofinternational development studies, disaster management, politicsand international affairs, and environmental geography/sociology.
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Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms viii
Text Boxes x
Introduction 1
1 The Disaster Politics Nexus 6
2 The Global Policy Field of Natural Disasters 18
3 The Kindness of Strangers 42
4 A Safer World? 59
5 Climate of Concern 78
6 Disaster Politics as Game Playing 97
7 Mass Media and the Politics of Disaster 115
8 Disaster Politics: A Discursive Approach 130
9 Conclusion 146
Notes 159
References 167
Index 188
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