Further Reading...
Sustainable
development; Hazard
vulnerability and mitigation; Contemporary
capitalism; El Salvador
and Latin American background.
...On Sustainable
Development...
INTRODUCTORY:
Bernard, T. and Young, Y. 1997. The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate
for Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.
Daly, H. and Cobb, J. 1989. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy
toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Boston: Beacon.
MORE DETAILED:
Ayres, R. and Weaver, P., eds. 1998. Eco-Restructuring: Implications for
Sustainable Development. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
Barraclough, S. and Moss, D. 1999. Toward
Greater Food Security in Central America Following Hurricane Mitch: Rethinking Sustainable
Development Priorities. Boston: Oxfam America.
Harvey, D. 2000. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Hawken, P., Lovins, A., Lovins, L. 1999. Natural Capitalism.
Boston: Little, Brown.
Handmer, J. and Wisner, B. 1999. "Hazards, Globalization, and Sustainability:
Conference Report." Development in Practice 9,3, pp.
342-346.
Inoguchi, T., Newman, E., Paoletto, G., eds. 1999. Cities and the Environment:
New Approaches for Eco-Societies. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
Jaeger, C. 1994. Taming the Dragon: Transforming Economic Institutions in the
Face of Global Change. Yverdon, Switzerland: Gordon and Breach Science
Publishers.
Kirby, J., O'Keefe, P., Timberlake, L., eds. 1995. The Earthscan Reader in
Sustainable Development. London: Earthscan Publications.
Pye-Smith, C., Feyerabend, G., Sandbrook, R. 1994. The Wealth of Communities.
West Hartford: Kumarian Press.
Roy, A. 1999. The Cost of Living. London: Flamingo.
Sachs, W. 1999. Planet Dialectics.
London: Zed Books.
Sachs, W., ed. 1993. Global Ecology. London: Zed Press.
Segura, O. and Boyce, J. 1994. "Investing in Natural and Human Capital in Developing
Countries." In: A. Jansson, ed., Investing in Natural Capital: The
Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability, pp. 470-489. Washington,
D.C.: Island Press.
Utting, P., ed. 2000. Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social
Development. Geneva: UNRISD.
Weizsaecker, E., Lovins, A., and Lovins, H. 1997. Factor Four: Doubling Wealth
-- Halving Resource Use. London: Earthscan.
Wisner, B. and Lakshman, Y. 1995. "Building a Case Against Economic
Development." GeoJournal 35,2: 105-18.
...On
Hazard Vulnerability and Mitigation...
INTRODUCTORY:
Anderson, M. and Woodrow, P. 1999. Rising from the Ashes: Development
Strategies in Times of Disaster. 2nd ed. London: IT Press.
Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davis, I., Wisner, B. 1994. At Risk: Natural Hazards,
People's Vulnerability, and Disasters. London: Routledge.
[El mismo en Espanol: Blaikie, P. et al., 1996. Vulneralibilidad: El Entorno
social, politico y economico de los desastres. Lima: La Red/
ITDG.]
Boyce, James K. 2000. "Let Them Eat Risk? Wealth, Rights and Disaster
Vulnerability." Disasters 24,3, pp. 254-261.
Maskrey, A. 1989. Disaster Mitigation: A Community Based Approach.
Oxford: Oxfam.
[El mismo en Espanol: Maskrey, A. 1989. El Manejo popular de los desastres
naturales: Estudios de vulnerabilidad y mitigacion. Lima: Tecnologia
Intermedia (ITDG).
Varley, A., ed. 1994. Disasters, Development and Environment.
Chichester: Wiley.
MORE DETAILED:
David Alexander. 2000. Confronting Catastrophe: New Perspectives on Natural
Disasters. New York: Oxford University Press.
Burby, R., ed. 1998. Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with
Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities. Washington, D.C.: Joseph
Henry Press.
Comfort, L. et al. 1999. "Reframing Disaster Policy: The Global Evolution of
Vulnerable Communities." Environmental Hazards 1, 39-44.
Comfort, L. 1999. Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response.
Amsterdam: Pergamon.
Diaz, H. and Pulwarty, R., eds. 1997. Hurricanes: Climate and Socio-Economic
Impacts. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Eade, D. and Williams, S. 1995. The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief.
3 vols. Oxford: Oxfam Publications.
Enarson, E. and Morrow, B., eds. 1998. The Gendered Terrain of Disaster:
Through Women's Eyes. Westport: Praeger.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 1997. Multi-Hazard Identification
and Risk Assessment. Washington, D.C.: FEMA.
Godschalk, D. et al. 1999. Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster
Policy and Planning. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). 2000. Facing
the Challenge of Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: an IDB Action Plan.
Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank [http://www/iadb.org/sds/env].
La Red (The Network for Social Studies on Disaster
Prevention in Latin America). 1993. Research Agenda and Constitution. Lima: ITDG.
Lavell, A. and Franco, E., eds. 1996. Estado, Sociedad y Gestion de los
Desastres en America Latina: En Busca del paradigma perdido. Lima: La Red,
FLACSO, ITDG.
Lewis, James 1999 Development in
Disaster-prone Places: Studies of Vulnerability. London: IT Publications
Publisher's website: http://www.oneworld.org/itdg/publications.html
Maskrey, A., ed. 1998. Navegando entre Brumas: La Aplicacion de los sistemas
de informacion geografica al analisis de riesgo en America Latina. Lima: La
Red/ IT Peru.
Mileti, D. 1999. Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the
United States. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press.
Mitchell, J., ed. 1999. Crucibles of Hazard: Mega-Cities and Disasters in
Transition. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). 2000. Natural Disasters: Protecting
the public's health. Washington, D.C.: PAHO.
Peacock, W., Morrow, B., Gladwin, H., eds. 1997. Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity,
gender and the sociology of disasters. London: Routledge.
Perrow, C. 1984. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.
New York: Basic Books.
Platt, R. et al. 1999. Disasters and Democracy: The Politics of Extreme
Natural Events. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Shrivastava, P. 1992. Bhopal: Anatomy of a Crisis. London: Paul
Chapman Publishing.
Wisner, B. 1999. "There Are Worse Things than Earthquakes: Hazard Vulnerability and
Mitigation in Los Angeles." In: J. K. Mitchell, ed., Crucibles of Hazard:
Mega-Cities and Disasters in Transition, pp. 375-427. Tokyo: United Nations
University Press.
Wisner, B. 1998. "The Geography of Vulnerability: Why the Tokyo Homeless Don't
'Count' in Earthquake Preparations." Applied Geography
18,1, pp. 25-34.
Wisner, B. 1996. "The Geography of Vulnerability." In: J. Uitto and J.
Schneider, eds., Preparing for the Big One in Tokyo: Urban Earthquake Risk
Management, pp. 20-33. Tokyo: United Nations University.
Wisner, B. 1995. "Bridging 'Expert' and 'Local' Knowledge for Counter-Disaster
Planning in Urban South Africa. GeoJournal 37,3, pp. 335-348.
Wisner, B. 1993a. "Disaster Vulnerability: Scale, Power, and Daily Life." Geojournal
30,2, pp. 127-140.
Wisner, B. 1993b. "Disaster Vulnerability: Geographical Scale and Existential
Reality." In: H.-G. Bohle, ed., Worlds of Pain and Hunger,
pp. 13-54. Freiburg Studies in Development Geography 5. Saarbrücken and Fort Lauderdale:
Breitenbach Publishers.
Wisner, B. and Slooff, B., eds. 20001. Health and Environment in Emergencies
and Disasters. Geneva: WHO/IFRC/UNHCR.
...On Contemporary Capitalism...
INTRODUCTORY:
Durning, A. 1992. How Much is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future of
the Earth. New York: W. Norton.
Korten, D. 1995. When Corporations Rule the World. West
Hartford: Kumarian Press.
Mander, J. and Goldsmith, E., eds. 1996. The Case Against the Global Economy
and For a Turn Towards the Local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
MORE DETAILED:
Bales, K. 1999. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chossudovsky, M. 1997. The Globalization of Poverty. London: Zed
Books.
Corbridge, S., Martin, R., Trift, N., eds. 1994. Money, Power and Space.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Harvey, D. 1982. The Limits to Capital. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Johnston, B., ed. 1997. Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the
Environment at the End of the Millennium. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
O'Connor, M., ed. 1994. Is Capitalism Sustainable? New York:
Guilford.
Reed, D., ed. 1996. Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable
Development. London: Earthscan.
Sassen, S. 1998. Globalization and its Discontents. New York:
The New Press.
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) 1995. States
of Disarray: The Social Effects of Globalization. Geneva:
UNRISD.
... El Salvador and Latin
American Background ...
INTRODUCTORY:
Barry, T. 1990. El Salvador: A Country Guide. Albuquerque: The
Inter-Hemispheric Education Resources Center.
Boyce, J. and Pastor, M. 1997. "Macroeconomic Policy and Peace Building in El
Salvador." In: Kumar, K., ed., Rebuilding Societies After Civil War,
pp. 287-314. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Gilbert, A. 1994. The Latin American City. London:
Latin America Bureau.
Hardoy, J. and Satterthwaite, D. 1989. Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban
Third World. London: Earthscan.
Weaver, F. 1994. Inside the Volcano: The History and Political Economy of
Central America. Boulder: Westview.
MORE DETAILED:
Barry, T. 1987. Roots of Rebellion: Land & Hunger in Central America.
Boston: South End.
Berryman, P. 1984. The Religious Roots of Rebellion. Maryknoll,
NY: Orbis Books.
Boyce, J., ed. 1996. Economic Policy for Building Peace: The Lessons of El
Salvador. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Faber, D. 1993. Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis
in Central America. New York: Monthly Review.
Fuentes, C. 1996. A New Time for Mexico. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux.
Guillermoprieto, A. 1994. The Heart that Bleeds: Latin America Now.
New York: Vintage.
Gutierrez, G. 1983. The Power of the Poor in History. Maryknoll,
NY: Orbis.
Hardoy, J. 2000. Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World.
London: Earthscan.
Katzenberger, E., ed. 1995. First World, Ha Ha Ha! The Zapatista Challenge.
San Francisco: City Lights.
Lieken, R. and Rubin, B., eds. 1987. Central American Crisis Reader.
New York: Summit Books.
Murray, K. 1997. El Salvador: Peace on Trial. Oxford:
Oxfam.
North, L. 1985. Bitter Grounds: Roots of Revolt in El Salvador.
Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill.
Stein, R. 1988. "Civil War, Reform, and Reaction in El Salvador." In: N.
Hamilton, J. Frieden, L. Fuller, and M. Pastor, eds., Crisis in Central
America: Regional Dynamics and U.S. Policy in the 1980s, pp. 193-205.
Boulder: Westview.
Williams, R. 1986. Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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