Conflict and disasters
- 2009 UN report on disaster risk reduction: assessing the challenge
- PreventionWeb, 2009
- There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period between 2003 and 2008; with the developing...
- Preparing for shocks: structural policies for developing countries
- P. Collier; B. Goderis / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2009
- Recent fluctuations in global commodity prices have revived an interest in the relationship between adverse shocks and growth, with particular reference to developing countries. So far, analysis has focused on policy responses to shoc...
- Does conflict create poverty?
- A.M. Ibáñez; A. Moya / Microcon, 2009
- Determining assets as key indicators of household welfare, the authors of this paper seek to analyse how asset losses occur during internal conflicts and the process of asset accumulation following conflict. To conduct such research t...
- Poverty reduction in a time of conflict: experiences fom Nepal
- N.N. Joshi; K. Dahal / Rural Reconstruction Nepal, 2009
- Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, recently witnessed a decade-long Maoist insurgency. Public service delivery became irregular, infrastructure fell into disarray and poor people’s livelihoods were disrupted. With...
- Natural resource and environmental conflict: building peace
- R. Matthew; O. Brown; D. Jensen / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
- Conflicts associated with natural resources are twice as likely to relapse into conflict in the first five years, an imminent report suggests. Indeed the natural resource curse has been a primary determinant of intra-state confli...
- How can NGOs effectively support communities affected by landmines?
- S. Naidoo; T. Paterson; N. Weigel / Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, 2008
- Landmine action is a key component of sustainable development. Not only does ‘contaminated’ terrain present obvious physical dangers but it disables communities by deterring IDP and refugee-return; limits access to health ...
- Community perceptions of climate vulnerability in Peru
- F. Sperling; C. Validivia; R. Quiroz / World Bank Publications, 2008
- While the scientific capacity to forecast El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes, this papers questions the extent to which these advances have benefited vulnerable communities by increasing their resilience to impeding E...
- Pastoralism and conflict in Darfur
- H. Young; A. M. Osman; A. M. Abusin / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
- Livelihoods in Darfur are intimately linked to the conflict. This document considers the livelihoods of the Northern Rizaygat, a group of Arabic-speaking, camel-herding nomads living in the Sudanese states of North, South, and We...
- A gender and livelihoods perspective on humanitarian crisis
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2008
- The increasing recognition that responses to humanitarian crisis must work to avoid long term dependency on relief aid guides this briefing. Approaches to Early Recovery (ER) aim to support the early recovery of affected populations a...
- Livelihoods issues in rural-urban migration in Afghanistan
- A. Opel / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
- This report analyses internal labour migration in Afghanistan. It aims to uncover the reasons for and patterns of rural to urban labour migration as part of household livelihood strategies and risk management. Almost a thousand people...
- 2009 UN report on disaster risk reduction: assessing the challenge
- PreventionWeb, 2009
- There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period between 2003 and 2008; with the developing...
- Preparing for shocks: structural policies for developing countries
- P. Collier; B. Goderis / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2009
- Recent fluctuations in global commodity prices have revived an interest in the relationship between adverse shocks and growth, with particular reference to developing countries. So far, analysis has focused on policy responses to shoc...
- Does conflict create poverty?
- A.M. Ibáñez; A. Moya / Microcon, 2009
- Determining assets as key indicators of household welfare, the authors of this paper seek to analyse how asset losses occur during internal conflicts and the process of asset accumulation following conflict. To conduct such research t...
- Poverty reduction in a time of conflict: experiences fom Nepal
- N.N. Joshi; K. Dahal / Rural Reconstruction Nepal, 2009
- Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, recently witnessed a decade-long Maoist insurgency. Public service delivery became irregular, infrastructure fell into disarray and poor people’s livelihoods were disrupted. With...
- Natural resource and environmental conflict: building peace
- R. Matthew; O. Brown; D. Jensen / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
- Conflicts associated with natural resources are twice as likely to relapse into conflict in the first five years, an imminent report suggests. Indeed the natural resource curse has been a primary determinant of intra-state confli...
- How can NGOs effectively support communities affected by landmines?
- S. Naidoo; T. Paterson; N. Weigel / Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, 2008
- Landmine action is a key component of sustainable development. Not only does ‘contaminated’ terrain present obvious physical dangers but it disables communities by deterring IDP and refugee-return; limits access to health ...
- Community perceptions of climate vulnerability in Peru
- F. Sperling; C. Validivia; R. Quiroz / World Bank Publications, 2008
- While the scientific capacity to forecast El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes, this papers questions the extent to which these advances have benefited vulnerable communities by increasing their resilience to impeding E...
- Pastoralism and conflict in Darfur
- H. Young; A. M. Osman; A. M. Abusin / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
- Livelihoods in Darfur are intimately linked to the conflict. This document considers the livelihoods of the Northern Rizaygat, a group of Arabic-speaking, camel-herding nomads living in the Sudanese states of North, South, and We...
- A gender and livelihoods perspective on humanitarian crisis
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2008
- The increasing recognition that responses to humanitarian crisis must work to avoid long term dependency on relief aid guides this briefing. Approaches to Early Recovery (ER) aim to support the early recovery of affected populations a...
- Livelihoods issues in rural-urban migration in Afghanistan
- A. Opel / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
- This report analyses internal labour migration in Afghanistan. It aims to uncover the reasons for and patterns of rural to urban labour migration as part of household livelihood strategies and risk management. Almost a thousand people...
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