The world conference on disaster viewed through the lens of political ecology: A dozen big questions for Kobe and beyond

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-95

  Wisner, Ben ^a   Walker, Peter ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DISASTER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 21444450188     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455750500108351     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Ken Hewitt (ed.), Interpretations of Calamity (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983);
2. Andrew Maskrey, Community Based Disaster Mitigation (Oxford: Oxfam, 1989);
3. Peter Walker, Famine Early Warning Systems: Victims and Destitution (London: Earthscan, 1989);
4. Andrew Maskrey (ed.), Los Desastres No Son Naturals (Lima, Peru: ITDG & La Red, 1993);
5. Ken Hewitt, Regions of Risk (Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman, 1997);
6. Mark Pelling (ed.), Natural Hazard and Development in a Globalizing World (London: Routledge, 2003);
7. Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, and Ian Davis, At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters, 2nd Edition (London: Routledge, 2004).
8. World Conference on Disaster Reduction web site http://www.unisdr.org/ wcdr/.
9. The Manizales Declaration is available in English at: http:// www.undp.org/bcpr/disred/documents/regions/america/2004/ manizales_nov04_eng.pdf.
10. The official title of the program of action is "Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters: Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015."
11. In announcing an International Early Warning System at the WCDR, Jan Egland called it "people centered." A major challenge for civil society is to cake up this challenge and give content to this phrase.
12. See the report of the World Commission on Social Dimension of Globalization, chaired by the presidents of Tanzania and Finland: http:// www.ilo.org/public/english/fairglobalization/.
13. See Disaster Diplomacy http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/disasterdiplomacy/.
14. The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) were very active at the WCDR, and a paragraph on their particular vulnerability to the hazards of climate change was included in the Hyogo Framework for Action.
15. Marc Reisner, A Dangerous Place (New York: Pantheon, 2003).
16. For the Millennium Development Goals, see http://www.un.org/ millenniumgoals/. Although there is considerable controversy about whether under the present neoliberal world economic and political order these amount to more than empty dreams or cynical rhetoric (often invoked at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland in February, 2005), the MDGs constitute the only systematic global poverty reduction plan we have.
17. See Desmond Tutu, "Speeches Don't Save Lives." Guardian, July 12, 2004, http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/ comment/0,11268,1259185,00.html.
18. "Survivors International http://www.survivorsintl.org/;
19. World Organization Against Torture http://www.omct.org/index_en.cfm? CFID=1620426&CFTOKEN=80615994;
20. Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture http://www.ccvt.org/;
21. Redress http://www.redress.org/;
22. The Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors http:// www.cybercambodia.com/dachs/;
23. International Conference of Genocide Survivors in Rwanda http:// www.afrol.com/News2001/rwa016_genocide_conference.htm;
24. Prevent Genocide International http://www.preventgenocide.org/.
25. International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal http://www.bhopat.net/;
26. Center for Health, Environment and Justice http://www.chej.org/;
27. Environmental Justice and Climate Initiative http://www.ejcc.org/.
28. Ben Wisner, "Disasters: What the United Nations and its World Can Do." http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue4/0400p6.htm.
29. Gender and Disaster Network http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/ geography_research/gdn/.