The term'natural disaster'is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes,
hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase'natural disaster'suggests an uncritical acceptance …

Common understanding of the causes of land-use and land-cover change is dominated by
simplifications which, in turn, underlie many environment-development policies. This article …

I within the next fifty years, the planet's human population will probably pass nine billion, and
global economic output may quintuple. Largely as a result, scarcities of renewable …

Community-based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) has been promoted as part of
the development discourse on sustainable natural resources management since the mid …

The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid
growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The …

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DESASTRES Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon Ian Davis y Ben Wisner LA RED Charo Patr …

Productivity risk is pervasive in underdeveloped countries. This paper highlights a way in
which underdevelopment exacerbates productivity risk. Productivity shocks cause larger …

Land reforms are laws that are intended, and likely, to cut poverty by raising the poor's share
of land rights. That raises questions about property rights as old as moral philosophy, and …