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...

The achievements and challenges of the world's largest multilateral donor population programs In the thirty years since the United Nations Populati...

When the major aid organizations made flows of aid conditional on changes in policy, they prompted an extensive debate in development circles. Aid ...

Peter Hjertholm, Editorial Assistant Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. In this important new book, leading e...

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

When the major aid organizations made flows of aid conditional on changes in policy, they prompted an extensive debate in development circles. Aid ...

Arguing forcefully that changing times are a clarion call for new thinking, this book convincingly shows that if humanitarian organizations continu...

In the past two decades, the international community has shown an increased proclivity to engage in programmes of post-conflict reconstruction in t...

International intervention in internal wars has gained rhetorical legitimacy in the post-cold war period, but in practice it has remained problemat...

International intervention in internal wars has gained rhetorical legitimacy in the post-cold war period, but in practice it has remained problemat...

Less than half of the public in the U.S. have taken the three steps to prepare for emergencies that are recommended by FEMA and the Red Cross: havi...

Less than half of the public in the U.S. have taken the three steps to prepare for emergencies that are recommended by FEMA and the Red Cross: havi...

The Disaster Dictionary identifies terms, acronyms, and related concepts. More than 1,100 entries are derived from many types of disasters and cris...

This book aims at uncovering the politics behind the provision of US foreign aid to Pakistan during three distinctive periods: the Cold War, the po...

This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike...

Although morbidity among HIV/AIDS victims has decreased, the rate of new infections has remained steady for several years, substantially increasing...

Although morbidity among HIV/AIDS victims has decreased, the rate of new infections has remained steady for several years, substantially increasing...

Humanitarian workers around the world struggle under dangerous conditions. Yet many do not have the technological tools readily available elsewhere...

The tragic death in Baghdad in 2003 of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, brought into bitter relief th...