Aid & Relief Programmes

This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were affected by ...

Drawing from eleven rich case studies in Asia, this book is the first to explore how heritage is used as aid and diplomacy by various agencies to p...

Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state. What happens when natural disasters add to their misery? This book looks at...

This book brings together for the first time in a single volume a complete survey of the theoretical foundations of economic aid policies and a cri...

The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world, but even more so for young children already in humanitarian c...

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth ...

This book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate chan...

Global development actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty reduction strategy framewo...

Research that occurs in the context of emergencies and disasters requires attention to challenging contexts and circumstances. Qualitative Disaster...

This book sets out to develop a new framework for the analysis of disaster situations in developing countries. In doing so, it challenges many of t...

Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world. It is at t...

Development is recognised as a major challenge, if not the major challenge, facing us all as we enter the twenty-first century. Yet those who pract...

First Published in 1998. The development of disaster planning in schools and colleges usually goes hand in hand with an element of safety planning:...

David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goa...

This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity ...

The world order as we know it is currently undergoing profound changes, and in its wake, so is foreign aid. Donors of foreign aid, development assi...

This book explores what difference development aid has made to the size, complexity, style of functioning, values and future direction of the NGO s...

The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of deep popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy re...

A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more t...

Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and ...

As Western aid budgets are slashed and government involvement with aid programmes reduced, NGOs in the voluntary sector are finding themselves taki...

Over the past decade, several major natural disasters have had devastating impacts throughout the United States and the world. Since larger populat...