Download MA Disasters, Adaptation and Development preliminary reading list

MA/MSc Disasters, Adaptation and Development
Preliminary Reading List
Adger, N., Paavola, J., Huq, S. and Mace, MJ (2006) Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, MIT
Press, Boston
Ahrens, J. and Rudolph, P. (2006) “The Importance of Governance in Risk Reduction
and Disaster Management”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 14 (4), pp.207220
Billing, K. (2006) “Building Back Better – Post-Crisis Economic Recovery and Development”, Habitat
Debate, 12 (4), 14
Dilley, M., R.S.Chen, U. Deichmann, A.L. Lerner-Lam, M. Arnold, J. Agwe, P. Buys, O. Kjekstad, B.
Lyon, and G. Yetman (2005) Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis, World Bank,
Washington D.C., http://www.proventionconsortium.org/?pageid=37&publicationid=38
Enarson, E., Morrow, B., 1998. The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women’s Eyes.1998.
Westport, CT: Praeger.
*Hewitt, K. 1983. Interpretations of Calamity. Winchester, MA: Allen & Unwin Inc.
Kasperson, J.X., R.E. Kasperson and B.L. Turner (1996) Regions at Risk: comparisons of threatened
environments, United Nations University Press, Washington D.C.
Mustafa, D., 1998. Structural Causes of Vulnerability to Flood Hazard in Pakistan. Economic
Geography 74:289-305-289-305.
Mustafa, D, 2004. Reinforcing vulnerability? The disaster relief, recovery and response to the 2001
flood Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Pakistan. Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions,
5(3/4):71-82.
Mustafa, D, 2005a. The production of an urban hazardscape in Pakistan: modernity, vulnerability
and the range of choice. The Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 95(3): 566586.
*Pelling, M. (2001) Natural Disasters? In Castree, N. and Braun, B. (Eds.) Social Nature, London:
Blackwells, 170-188.
Pelling, M. (Ed.) (2003) Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing World,
London: Routledge.
Pelling M, High C, Dearing J, Smith D (2007) Shadow spaces for social learning: a relational
understanding of adaptive capacity to climate change within organisations Environment and
Planning A advance online publication, doi:10.1068/a39148
Satterthwaite, D., Huq, S., Reid, H., Pelling, M. and Lankao, P.R. (2009) “Adapting to Climate Change
in Urban Areas: the possibilities and constraints in low- and middle-income nations” in Bicknell,
J., Dodman, D. and Satterthwaite, D. (eds) Adapting Cities to Climate Change, London: Earthscan
*Schipper, L. and Pelling, M. (2006) Disaster risk, climate change and international development:
scope and challenges for integration, Disasters 30 (1) 19-38.
*Wisner, B., P. Blaikie, T. Cannon, I. Davis, 2004. At Risk: natural hazards, people’s vulnerability and
disasters. Taylor and Francis: London.
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, (1999-onwards) World
Disasters Reports, Geneva.