-Disaster risk reduction in developing countries: costs, benefits and institutions. Charles Kenny

• Gender and international crisis response: do we have the data, and does it matter? Lisa Eklund and Siri Tellier
• The academic medical centre and nongovernmental organisation partnership following a natural disaster. Babak Sarani, Samir Mehta, Michael Ashburn, Koji Nakashima, Rajan Gupta, Derek Dombroski and C. William Schwab
• Dignity and the right of internally displaced adolescents in Colombia to sexual and reproductive health. Marleen Bosmans, Fernando Gonzalez, Eva Brems and Marleen Temmerman
• Connectedness, social support and internalising emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents displaced by the Chechen conflict. Theresa S. Betancourt, Carmel Salhi, Stephen Buka, Jennifer Leaning, Gillian Dunn and Felton Earls
• Ocean waves and roadside spirits: Thai health service providers' post-tsunami psychosocial health. Emma Varley, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai and Peter C. Coyte
• Flood vulnerability and commercial activities: the case of the city of Girona, Spain. Lluís Ribera Masgrau and Anna Ribas Palom
• Time needed to evacuate the Netherlands in the event of large-scale flooding: strategies and consequences. Bas Kolen and Ira Helsloot
• Analysis of hazardous material releases due to natural hazards in the United States. Hatice Sengul, Nicholas Santella, Laura J. Steinberg and Ana Maria Cruz

• Disaster risk reduction capacity assessment for precarious settlements in Guatemala City. Scott B. Miles, Rebekah A. Green and Walter Svekla
• Enhancing disaster management by mapping disaster proneness and preparedness. Vishal Mishra, Sanjay Fuloria and Shailendra Singh Bisht
• Social, not physical, infrastructure: the critical role of civil society after the 1923 Tokyo earthquake. Daniel P. Aldrich
• Effects of the Bam earthquake on employment: a shift-share analysis. Nader Mehregan, Ali Asgary and Rouhollah Rezaei
• Emotional and behavioural reactions to tremors of the Umbria-Marche earthquake. Gabriele Prati, Valeria Catufi and Luca Pietrantoni
• Long-term gendered consequences of permanent disabilities caused by the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. Humaira Irshad, Zubia Mumtaz and Adrienne Levay
• An analysis of seismic risk from a tourism point of view. Päivi Mäntyniemi
• Inequalities in exposure and awareness of flood risk in England and Wales. Jane L. Fielding
• The living environment and children's fears following the Indonesian tsunami. Ye Beverly Du, Christopher Thomas Lee, Desy Christina, Myron L. Belfer, Theresa S. Betancourt, Edward James O'Rourke and Judith S. Palfrey
• An adaptive governance approach to disaster-related behavioural health services. Simon A. Andrew and James M. Kendra
• Substance use among populations displaced by conflict: a literature review. Nadine Ezard

• Urban vulnerability and displacement: a review of current issues. Sara Pantuliano, Victoria Metcalfe, Simone Haysom and Eleanor Davey
• Displacement in urban areas: new challenges, new partnerships. Jeff Crisp, Tim Morris and Hilde Refstie
• Protecting people in cities: the disturbing case of Haiti. Elizabeth Ferris and Sara Ferro-Ribeiro
• Shelter strategies, humanitarian praxis and critical urban theory in post-crisis reconstruction. Lilianne Fan
• Moving from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’: reflections on humanitarian response in urban settings. Elena Lucchi
• Aid in a city at war: the case of Mogadishu, Somalia. François Grünewald
• Jockeying for position in the humanitarian field: Iraqi refugees and faith-based organisations in Damascus. Tahir Zaman

• From fatalism to resilience: reducing disaster impacts through systematic investments. Harvey Hill, John Wiener and Koko Warner
• How much more exposed are the poor to natural disasters? Global and regional measurement. Namsuk Kim
• Knowledge creation and reliable decision-making in complex emergencies. Bjørn Ivar Kruke and Odd Einar Olsen
• Farming the battlefield: the meanings of war, cattle and soil in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. T. Paul Cox
• Epidemiological assessment of food aid in the Bosnian conflict, 1994–97. Neil Andersson, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Anne Cockcroft and Lorraine Sherr
• Lessons from the 2006 Louisiana Health and Population Survey. Gregory S. Stone, Alden K. Henderson, Stephanie I. Davis, Michael Lewin, Iris Shimizu, Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Kris Bisgard, Robin Lee, Aisha Jumaan, Erin Marziale, Miranda Bryant, Clayton Williams, Karen Mason, Maria Sirois, Makiko Hori, Jonathan Chapman and David J. Bowman
• A baseline assessment of emergency planning and preparedness in Italian universities. Fausto Marincioni and Rita Fraboni
• The views of experts and residents on social vulnerability to flash floods in an Alpine region of Italy. Bruna De Marchi and Anna Scolobig
• Modelling coordination in hospital emergency departments through social network analysis. Liaquat Hossain and Danny Chun Kit Guan

• Coping strategies and risk manageability: using participatory geographical information systems to represent local knowledge. Graciela Peters-Guarin, Michael K. McCall and Cees van Westen
• Complementing institutional with localised strategies for climate change adaptation: a South–North comparison. Christine Wamsler and Nigel Lawson
• Cyclone preparedness and response: an analysis of lessons identified using an adapted military planning framework. Peter Tatham, Richard Oloruntoba and Karen Spens
• Post-flooding disaster crop diversity recovery: a case study of Cowpea in Mozambique. Morag E. Ferguson, Richard B. Jones, Paula J. Bramel, Carlos Domínguez, Carla Torre do Vale and Jie Han
• Latino social network dynamics and the Hurricane Katrina disaster. DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, Clare Barrington and Elaine Lacy
• Controlling disasters: recognising latent goals after Hurricane Katrina. Lee M. Miller
• Preventing corruption in humanitarian assistance: perceptions, gaps and challenges. Daniel Maxwell, Sarah Bailey, Paul Harvey, Peter Walker, Cheyanne Sharbatke-Church and Kevin Savage
• The need for innovative strategies to improve immunisation services in rural Zimbabwe. Addmore Chadambuka, Anderson Chimusoro, Tsitsilina Apollo, Mufuta Tshimanga, Olivia Namusisi and Elizabeth T. Luman

• Rebuilding and strengthening health systems and providing basic health services in fragile states. William Newbrander, Ronald Waldman y Megan Shepherd-Banigan
• Human resources for health through conflict and recovery: lessons from African countries. Enrico Pavignani
• Post-conflict health reconstruction: search for a policy. Leonard S. Rubenstein
• Mother's body mass index as a predictor of infant's nutritional status in the post-emergency phase of a flood. Sophie Goudet, Paula Griffths y Barry A. Bogin
• Supporting breastfeeding in emergencies: protecting women's reproductive rights and maternal and infant health. Karleen D. Gribble, Marie McGrath, Ali MacLaine y Lida Lhotska
• An integrated approach: managing resources for post-disaster reconstruction. Yan Chang, Suzanne Wilkinson, David Brunsdon, Erica Seville y Regan Potangaroa
• Remodelling reparation: changes in the compensation of victims of natural catastrophes in Belgium and the Netherlands. Véronique Bruggeman, Michael Faure y Miriam Haritz
• A test of stress theory: relief workers in refugee camps. Hussein H. Soliman y David F. Gillespie
• Facilitating disaster preparedness through local radio broadcasting. Eila Romo-Murphy, Ross James y Mike Adams

• Tsunami survivors' perspectives on vulnerability and vulnerability reduction: evidence from Koh Phi Phi Don and Khao Lak, Thailand.
• Evaluating post-Katrina recovery in Mississippi using repeat photography.
• Repetitive flood victims and acceptance of FEMA mitigation offers: an analysis with community-system policy implications.
• Social impact of the 2004 Manawatu floods and the 'hollowing out' of rural New Zealand.
• Severe drought and the vitamin A status of rural preschool children in India.
• The establishment of a standard operation procedure for psychiatric service after an earthquake.
• Establishing moral bearings: ethics and expatriate health care professionals in humanitarian work.
• Disaster coordination preparedness of soft-target organizations.

• Dividing disasters in Aceh, Indonesia: Separatist conflict and tsunami, human rights and humanitarianism.
• The role of the organisational psychologist in disasters and emergency situations.
• Comparative analysis of permanent post-disaster houses contructed in Cankiri and Dinar.
• Mother nature versus human nature: Public compliance with evacuation and quarantine.

• The relationship between demographic/educational parameters and perceptions, knowledge and earthquake mitigation in Israel.
• Information technology and emergency mangement: preparedness and planning in US states.
• Pinning down vulnerability: from narratives to numbers.
• Revisiting sphere: new standards of service delivery for new trends in potracted displacement.

• Health sector recovery in early post-conflict environments: experience from southern Sudan.
• Individual preparedness and mitigation actions for a predicted earhquake in Istambul.
• Cyclone disaster vulnerability and response experiences in coastal Bangladesh. Emergency preparedness consultants at the local government level: the Israeli experience.
• Between war and peace: humanitarian assistance in violent urban settings.
• Doing good, but looking bad? Local perceptions of two humanitarian organisations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

• 'A tradition of forgetting': stabilisation and humanitarian action in historical perspective.
• Stabilisation and humanitarian access in a collapsed state: the Somali case.
• Stabilising a victor's peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka.
• The United Kingdom's stabilisation model and Afghanistan: the impact on humanitarian actors.
• Security for whom? Stabilisation and civilian protection in Colombia.
• Aid and stability in Pakistan: lessons from the 2005 earthquake response.
• Addressing symptoms but not causes: stabilisation and humanitarian action in Timor-Leste.
• The effects of stabilisation on humanitarian action in Haiti.

• Campaign contributions, lobbying and post-Katrina contracts.
• Gauging the societal impacts of natural desasters using a capability approach.
• Transformative experience for hurricanes Katrina and Rita disasters volunteers.
• Fiji's wors natural disasters: the 1931 hurricane and flood.
• Post-earthquake reabilitation of the rural water systems in Kashmir's Jehlum Valley.
• Assessing the impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on households: a modified domestics assets index approach.
• Vulnerability of schools to floods in Nyando River catchment, Kenya.
• Disasters response preparedness coordination through social networks.
• Two solitudes: post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh.
• Symptomatic profile and health-related quality of life of persons affected by the Prestige catastrophe.
• Optimazing hurricane disaster relief goods distribution: model development and application with respect to planing strategies.
• Emergency safe spaces in Haiti and the Solomon Islands.
• Minimization of socioeconomic disruption for displaced populations following disasters.

• Community cohesion after a natural disaster: insights from a Carliste flood.
• Lessons from a microfinance recapitalisation programme.
• Organisational socialisation in a crisis context.

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