Disasters

States of fragility: stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian action
Sarah Collinson, Samir Elhawary and Robbert Muggah

Stabilisation and humanitarian access in a collapsed state: the Somali case
Ken Menkhaus

Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration
Lisa Schipper, Mark Pelling

Doing the right thing: relief agencies, moral dilemmas and moral responsibility in political emergencies and war
Hugo Slim

Who owns the peace? Aid, recontruction and peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Jonathan Goodhand and Mark Sedra

Measuring revealed and emergent vulnerabilities of coastal communities to tsunami in Sri Lanka
J. Birkmann, N. Fernando

Enhancing community-based disaster preparedness with information technology
D.A. Troy et al.

Returning home: resettlement of formerly abducted children in northern Uganda
J.N. Corbin

Special issue - Famine

Following the famine in Somalia, this special issue of Disasters brings together seminal articles on previous famines in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere. It is hoped that this rich literature, spanning almost 30 years, can be of help in informing the current response. View contents free online.

Special Issue - Refugees and the displaced

This special issue features a selection of the most relevant and original articles about refugee and displacement issues published by Disasters over the past 35 years to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. View contents free online.

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Online content available back to vol. 1, 1966

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States of fragility: stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian action
Volume 34(s3), 2010

The social dynamics of humanitarian action
Volume 34(s2), 2010

Emerging perspectives on the politicisation of reconstructing conflict-affected states
Volume 34(s1), 2010

Virtual theme issues

FAMINE
REFUGEES AND THE DISPLACED
HAITI
ETHIOPIA
INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI