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Disasters and the networked economy /
"Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in development economics ;
103. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of Large Natural Disasters (Clarendon Press, 1993), to show that societal networking and disaster localization constitute part of an essential framework to understand disaster effects and responses. The author's last book argued that disasters were a problem of development, rather than a problem for development. This volume takes the argument forward both in terms of the macroeconomic effects of disaster and development policy, arguing that economy and society are not inert objects, but living organisms. Using a framework based on societal networking and the economic localization of disasters, the author shows that societal functionality (defined as the capacity of a system to survive, reproduce and develop) is unlikely to be impaired by natural disasters."--Publisher's website |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135953386 1135953384 9780203406670 0203406672 9781299540095 1299540090 9781135953454 1135953457 9781135953522 113595352X 9781138902664 1138902667 |