Aid and relief programmes

A study of the emergence and development of humanitarian intervention from the nineteenth century through to the present day.

A study of the emergence and development of humanitarian intervention from the nineteenth century through to the present day.

Using international case studies to critique recent health and aid policies, this book presents strategies to create fairer health services.

This edited volume analyzes the evolution of international disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human rights, sovereignty, and technology.

This edited volume analyzes the evolution of international disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human rights, sovereignty, and technology.

Uses interviews with evacuees and service provider reports to analyse the response to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina.

Uses interviews with evacuees and service provider reports to analyse the response to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina.

A longitudinal study spanning six decades to map the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.

Reviews recent lessons about decentralized governance and implications for future development programs and policies.

Reviews recent lessons about decentralized governance and implications for future development programs and policies.

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

In their Time of Need recounts the activities of Australia''s military forces in response to overseas natural disasters.

An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation.

An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation.

Economic aid is one of the cornerstones of the Egyptian-American relationship, and plays a significant role in promoting US policy objectives in the Middle East.

As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security.

Islamic Charity Under Suspicion': such headlines have become familiar since the attacks on the United States on 9.

This book takes a look at the key challenges of HIV and AIDS from a gender perspective, and describes positive responses in areas of the world as diverse as Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, and Papua New Guinea.

An economics-focused analysis of why humanitarian relief efforts fail and how they can be remedied.

The Money Doctor in the Andes is an account of the technical assistance missions to five Andean republics-Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru-undertaken by Princeton University economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer during the 1920s.

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From earthquakes to tornados, elected officials' responses to natural disasters can leave an indelible mark on their political careers.

An economics-focused analysis of why humanitarian relief efforts fail and how they can be remedied.

A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home.

In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium.

A study of the perception issues and ethical dilemmas faced by humanitarian organizations.

What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid?

The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance.

The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance.

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment.

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment.

Using international case studies to critique recent health and aid policies, this book presents strategies to create fairer health services.

Das Buch zur aktuellen Flüchtlingskrise Er rettete Zehntausende bedrohte Hutu aus dem Regenwald, koordinierte die internationalen Maßnahmen im Kosovo.

Part of the popular Understanding Public Health series, this book provides an introductory overview of current health-related challenges and policy debates on appropriate responses to different humanitarian conflicts.

An accessible introduction for all social science studentsA balanced, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the issues and trendsA guide to the past, present and future of foreign aidForeign aid has undergone considerable changes over the past fifty years.

The theories and case studies examined in this volume constitute a thorough study of foreign intervention in civil conflicts for the purpose of rendering humanitarian aid.

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World.

This book is a penetrating comparative analysis of the economic development efforts of West African countries.

Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique is a practitioners' handbook that builds upon the experience of a pilot project that was awarded the United Nations 'Lighthouse Activity' Award.

This book explores the emerging phenomenon of complex humanitarian emergencies and the evolving policies of the United States in responding to these emergencies.

This new edition of Conor Quigley's book (originally 'EC State Aid Law and Policy'), offers the most comprehensive and detailed examination of this fast developing field of Community law.

In the spring of 2001, an industrial fishing trawler went down in the icy waters just below the Arctic Circle, with its position last recorded at 58 degrees north.

A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine.

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.

From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War.

A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.

A "e;superb account"e; of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation's northern coast and its repercussions (Publishers Weekly).

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy.

We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states.