The Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London is
launching a series of Disaster Management Working Papers.
The series is designed to make new evidence, analysis and ideas available
to researchers and practitioners worldwide. Five main categories are
envisaged: research papers, case studies, field notes, discussion papers,
and guidelines and training materials.
The first Working Paper has been issued. It is a discussion paper
entitled ‘Physician heal thyself? The politics of disaster mitigation’, by
John Twigg. The paper looks at some of the reasons why so little is being
done to reduce people’s vulnerability to natural disasters, and suggests
that part of the problem lies within the so-called disaster ‘community’ and
is political, in the broadest sense of the word.
The Working Paper can be downloaded from the Benfield Greig Hazard Research
Centre’s website (http://www.bghrc.com - go to the site’s Disaster
Management page). Further papers in the series will appear in due course.
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