| Date |
Topic |
| 22.1.10 |
Go here for: Ben Wisner’s comment on the Lancet editorial, 22nd January 2010 |
| 22.1.10 |
Go here for: "Growth of aid and the decline of humanitarianism" The Lancet Editorial www.thelancet.com Vol 375 January 23, 2010 |
| 22.1.10 |
Go here for: Letters, Haitian empowerment must be the prime goal, The Guardian, Friday 22 January 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/haitian-empowerment-prime-goal |
| 21.1.10 |
Go here for a copy of "Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment" By Seumas Milne (pubished by The Guardian here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/20/haiti-suffering-earthquake-punitive-relationship ) |
| 21.1.10 |
New Haiti page |
| 18.1.10 |
Haiti - Some Key Questions and Answers here |
| 25.6.09 |
"Local Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction" Keynote, Side Meeting on Indigenous Knowledge, Global Platform for Disaster Reduction. Geneva, 17 June 2009. REVISED 25 June 2009. Dr. Ben Wisner. Download Word document here |
| 19.5.09 |
"All Disasters Are Local, But Their Root Causes Are Not" Ben Wisner, response to NYT Op-Ed of Monday 18th May 2009. Download Word document here. See also the New York Times' blog http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/the-world-of-disaster-risk-is-not-flat and story http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/world/17WebDisaster.html?_r=1 by Andy Revkin |
| 18.1.09 |
The Artist as Witness: Zainul Abedin and the Bengal Famine of 1943 by James Lewis, December 2008. Download Word document (332KB) here |
| 5.12.08 |
New Page: Poznan Declaration, "World vs. Bank", RADIX institutional support |
| 28.10.08 |
"What the Next President Must Do to Save FEMA" by GREGORY V. BUTTON Pulse of the Planet 28 October 2008 http://www.counterpunch.org/button10282008.html Download Word document here |
| 15.9.08 |
New Page: Climate Change and Migration. Go here to download the introduction by Ben Wisner: Climate Change and Migration: Scientific Fact or Leap of (Bad) Faith? Invitation to a debate & Radix collection of materials elucidating debate& the assumptions & politics in the back ground. |
| 15.9.08 |
Climate Refugees and Climate Conflict: Who’s Taking the Heat for Global Warming? By Betsy Hartmann bhartmann@hampshire.edu (download Word document here 106kb) or go direct to the new page: Climate Change and Migration |
| 3.6.08 |
A Spoonful of History with Your Metric Ton of Rice! Is Production Shortfall the Root Cause of Hunger? Ben Wisner bwisner@igc.org 3 June 2008 (Download Word document here 37kb) |
| 26.5.08 |
“Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters? How Disaster Capitalism Blackmails Flood Victims” by Greg Berger, 6 May 2008 (Download Word document here154kb) and Spanish translation: “¿Echando aceite sobre aguas turbulentas? Como el capitalismo de desastre chantajea las victimas de la inundación” by Greg Berger, 6 Mayo 2008 (Download Word document here 383kb) |
| 26.5.08 |
"Corruption and earthquake destruction: Observations on events in Turkey, Italy and China" by James Lewis, May 2008 (Download Word document here 64kb) |
| --12-07 |
Typhoons and floods in Vietnam: Measures for disaster reduction in contexts of climate change by James Lewis (Download Word document here) |
| 5.11.07 |
“Plan Mexico” Claims its First Victims in the Murky Floodwaters of Tabasco By Greg Berger.
Special to The Narco News Bulletin, November 1, 2007 (Download Word document here) |
| --09-07 |
Report for Radix: Boulder, Colorado Hazards and Disasters Workshops 2007
By Ilan Kelman (Download Word document here) |
| 05.2007 |
Noreen Haider, "Who's on trial!!!" (Download Word document here 27kb) |
| --.4.07 |
New Page: Climate Change and Human Security (Download Word document here - 340kb) |
| 03.2007 |
New Page: Animals in Disaster |
| 03.2007 |
"Disaster Diplomacy in Bolivia" Compiled by Ben Wisner (Download Word document 80kb here) |
| 19.11.06 |
"VOLCANIC AND OTHER VICISSITUDES: THE DEEP-SEA PORT OF RABAUL" by James Lewis, October 2006 Download (42kb) |
| 5.10.06 |
Gilbert F. White dies. Link to his website at Colorado University. Link to a new Gilbert F. White page on Radix |
| 29.9.06 |
"Safer Schools means Safer Community Role of Schools in Disaster Risk Reduction of Bangladesh" Shashanka Saadi, Interim Project manager, Disaster Risk Reduction through Schools project, ActionAid International, March 2006. Download pdf (336kb) |
| 5.8.06 |
Open letter from Jewish writers, scholars, poets, translators, and artists of diverse national origin, who offer this open letter in order to communicate solidarity with Lebanese and Palestinian colleagues who are living under siege. (Word) |
| 20.7.06 |
"Early Warning … that “Early Warning” is a long way off!!" Ben Wisner 18 July 2006. Download Word file (with images) Larger (5.8mb); Smaller (4.2mb) |
| 10.7.06 |
Ines Cifuentes response to a Guardian piece on earthquakes and tsunamis (Word) |
| 17.2.06 |
Another “Perfect Storm”? Questions about Knowledge, Education, and Safe Schools by Ben Wisner (Word) |
| 17.2.06 |
Amazing Grace by Anne Lowe (the story of a volunteer for Common Ground in New Orleans in January 2006) (pdf) |
| 27.1.06 |
Monsoon, Market, and Miscalculation: The Political Ecology of Mumbai’s July 2005 Floods by Ben Wisner (22 January 2006). (Download Word file 58kb) |
| 31.12.05 |
From James Lewis. Posting to Radix list concerning corruption in construction. Thursday November 10, 2005
http://www.ecie.org/pipermail/radix/2005-November/000077.html http://www.ecie.org/pipermail/radix/2005-November/000077.html |
| 31.12.05 |
Democracy Now! Tuesday, November 8th, 2005.
"U.S. Broadcast Exclusive - "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre" on the U.S. Use of Napalm-Like White Phosphorus Bombs"http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/1516227 |
| 31.12.05 |
Isolated Native American Communities Struggle in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Click here to stream a video documentary by Mexico based community video maker, Greg Berger and to read a transcript of an interview with him: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0740237 |
| 27.10.05 |
A series of outputs from the Measuring Mitigation
project: Measuring
Mitigation Report pdf 770 kb;
Measuring
Mitigation Policy Brief pdf 56kb;
Measuring
Mitigation Synthesis pdf159kb (also located in
Resources: Toolbox page. Also on
the ProVention Consortium website
http://www.proventionconsortium.org/publications.htm) |
| 27.10.05 |
Earthquake in Kashmir: A Question of Responsibilities by David
Alexander 25.10.2005 (download
Word file 47kb) |
| 27.10.05 |
Findings from the School of American Research Advanced Seminar on
Rethinking Frameworks, Methodologies, and the Role of Anthropology in
Development Induced Displacement and Resettlement. (Oct 1, 2005) (download
Word file 32.5kb) |
| 27.10.05 |
TED STEINBERG "Opinion: A Natural Disaster, a Man-Made Catastrophe,
and a Human Tragedy" Friday, September 9, 2005. The Chronicle of
Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/09/2005090906n.htm |
| 22.9.05 |
"Noticing gender (or not) in disasters" by Joni Seager (A version
of this essay is forthcoming in Geoforum and appeared on September 14
2005 in the Chicago Tribune.) |
| 19.9.05 |
New page! Research/Praxis |
| 19.9.05 |
Wisner B and Adams J (eds) 2002 Environmental Health in Emergencies
and Disasters: A Practical Guide. World Health Organization.
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/emergencies/emergencies2002/en/
See Chapter 5. Recovery and sustainable development
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/emergencies/em2002chap5.pdf |
| 18.9.05 |
Women and girls last in the aftermath of Katrina (Word document
41kb) |
| 11.9.05 |
"Katrina Rebuilding -- Hire locally & Pay
living wage" submitted by Kris Petersen to the
Gender and Disaster Network (Download
Word file here 48kb) |
| 11.9.05 |
New Orleans and Looting. Some thoughts from Terry Cannon (download
Word file 36.5 kb) |
| 11.9.05 |
Selected comments on Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) from email lists
Compiled and updated by Ilan Kelman (dated 7 September 2005)
Download
Word file !!Very large file - 898kb |
| 9.9.05 |
"Displaced New Orleans Community Demands Action, Accountability and
Initiates A Peoples Hurricane Fund" Community Labor United, September
6th, 2005. U.S. Labor Against the War
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=9094 |
| 9.9.05 |
"Power to the victims of New Orleans. With the poor gone, developers
are planning to gentrify the city" by Naomi Klein. Friday September 9,
2005, The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1566200,00.html |
| 7.9.05 |
Special Report from the The
Times-Picayune warning of the kind of scenario realized in Katrina.
You can see the complete report at:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/ forwarded by
Alberto Delgado |
| 7.9.05 |
"What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?" by Shirley Laska |
| 7.9.05 |
"Left to sink or swim" by Gary Younge. Monday September 5, 2005, The
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1562737,00.html |
| 7.9.05 |
The People's
Hurricane Fund
http://www.qecr.org/Public_QECR.nsf/PublicLinkIDs/Public2AA857E1647E8AE185257074003D5B82?OpenDocument&justframe&style¬itle |
| 7.9.05 |
Kevin Murray
UUSC weblog 05 September 2005
"NOLA's Free Market Evacuation"
http://www.uusc.org/blog/hotwire.html |
| 6.9.05 |
NEW ORLEANS'S
HURRICANE EVACUATION PLAN: "YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN" By Bruce Nolan, Staff
writer New Orleans Times-Picayne, July 24, 2005
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/09/new_orleanss_hu.html |
| 6.9.05 |
"Intelligence Failure" by Pielke Jr., R. | Environment September 04,
2005
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/environment/000555intelligence_failure.html |
| 6.9.05 |
"In the News: Katrina and People with
Disabilities" Compiled by ADA Watch/NCDR
http://www.adawatch.org/
Thanks to Todd Reynolds for sending this compilation to RADIX (download
Word file 37kb) |
| 31.8.05 |
Destroying FEMA by Eric
Holdeman (25kb), Tuesday, August 30, 2005. washingtonpost.com |
| 31.8.05 |
Hurricane Katrina: Winds of Change?
by Ben Wisner (download
this as a Word file 46kb) |
| 31.8.05 |
New
Page - Hurricane Katrina, US Gulf Coast, August 2005 |
| 22.8.05 |
Wisner Ben and Walker Peter 2005 Beyond Kobe: A Proactive Look at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction. 18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Japan. A report for the Swiss Department of Humanitarian Aid. Feinstein International Famine Center, May 2005
(download pdf (293 kb) here) |
| 6.7.05 |
Ben Wisner:
"WHAT WILL HATCH FROM THE EGGS IN GLENEAGLES
NEST?" (download Word file (30.5kb) here) |
We have an email discussion list, generously
managed by Dr Alberto Delgado from ECIE - a Peruvian/American NGO (for more information
about ECIE go to 