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This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation
in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary
for the success and scaling up of these strategies. Using the case
study of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines, the strongest
typhoon ever to make landfall, the book aims to draw out policy
recommendations relevant for other middle- and lower-income
countries facing similar urban environmental challenges. Humans are
increasingly living in densely populated and highly vulnerable
areas, often coastal. This increased density of human settlements
leads to increased material damage and high death tolls, and this
vulnerability is often exacerbated by climate change. This book
focuses on urban population risk, vulnerability to disasters,
resilience to environmental shocks, and adaptation in relation to
paths in and out of poverty. Using both qualitative and
quantitative methods, including primary survey data from victims
and those charged with overseeing the relief effort in the
Philippines, Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster
has significant implications for disaster risk reduction as it
relates to the urban poor and is highly recommended for scholars
and practitioners of development studies, environment studies, and
disaster relief and risk reduction.
This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation
in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary
for the success and scaling up of these strategies. Using the case
study of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines, the strongest
typhoon ever to make landfall, the book aims to draw out policy
recommendations relevant for other middle- and lower-income
countries facing similar urban environmental challenges. Humans are
increasingly living in densely populated and highly vulnerable
areas, often coastal. This increased density of human settlements
leads to increased material damage and high death tolls, and this
vulnerability is often exacerbated by climate change. This book
focuses on urban population risk, vulnerability to disasters,
resilience to environmental shocks, and adaptation in relation to
paths in and out of poverty. Using both qualitative and
quantitative methods, including primary survey data from victims
and those charged with overseeing the relief effort in the
Philippines, Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster
has significant implications for disaster risk reduction as it
relates to the urban poor and is highly recommended for scholars
and practitioners of development studies, environment studies, and
disaster relief and risk reduction.
This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have
responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of
the Cold War, focusing on military transformation. Looking at a
cross-section of different countries, this volume assesses how
their armed forces have responded to a changing international
security context. The book investigates two main themes. First, how
the process of military 'transformation'- in terms of technological
advances and new ways of conducting warfare - has impacted on the
militaries of various countries. These technologies are hugely
expensive and the extent to which different states can afford them,
and the ability of these states to utilise these technologies,
differs greatly. Second, the volume investigates the social
dimensions of military transformation. It reveals the expanding
breadth of tasks that contemporary armed forces have been required
to address. This includes the need for military forces to work with
other actors, such as non-governmental agencies and humanitarian
organisations, and the ability of armed forces to fight asymmetric
opponents and conduct post-conflict reconstruction tasks. The
conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan exemplified how important the
relationship between technological and social transformation has
become. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic
studies, military innovation, Asian politics, security studies and
International Relations.
Poverty and the Critical Security Agenda argues that poverty should
be a central concern of security studies and critiques existing
methodological approaches to poverty and 'well-being'. Using the
Philippines as a case study, this book is critical of approaches to
poverty that portray the poor as passive objects as opposed to
dynamic actors. With this in mind, the relationship between poverty
and democracy, as a means to facilitating human security, is
central. Poverty acts as a major behavioural force in international
relations, not least for the state, and therefore merits increased
visibility within the research agenda. This text is highly relevant
for courses on international relations methodology and critical
theory, development studies, security studies and international
political economy.
Poverty and the Critical Security Agenda argues that poverty should
be a central concern of security studies and critiques existing
methodological approaches to poverty and 'well-being'. Using the
Philippines as a case study, this book is critical of approaches to
poverty that portray the poor as passive objects as opposed to
dynamic actors. With this in mind, the relationship between poverty
and democracy, as a means to facilitating human security, is
central. Poverty acts as a major behavioural force in international
relations, not least for the state, and therefore merits increased
visibility within the research agenda. This text is highly relevant
for courses on international relations methodology and critical
theory, development studies, security studies and international
political economy.
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