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In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been... 
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | Social learning | Disasters | Social aspects | Disaster relief | Political Economy | Development Economics | Cultural Theory | Social learning - Gulf States

Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery-providing shelter,... 
Emergency management | Disaster relief | Planning - Human Geography | Building and Construction | City and Urban Planning | Hazards & Disasters | Urban Development

Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the... 
Disaster relief | Risk | City and Urban Planning | Governance - Politics & International Relations | Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies) | Politics & International Relations | Science & Technology | Disaster relief - Government policy | Emergency management | Disaster victims

The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of... 
Tsunamis | Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 | Disaster relief | Environment & the Developing World | Environmental Geography | Asian Culture & Society | Civil Wars & Ethnic Conflict | South Asian Studies | South Asian Politics | Asia, Southeast

New Orleans (La.) Economic conditions | New Orleans (La.) Social conditions | Relief Work | Disasters | Disaster relief | Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | Social aspects | Disaster victims | Cyclonic Storms | Socioeconomic Factors | Social conditions

"During the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of moral and ethical leadership in society has been exposed. The Most Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop... 
Economics | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Moral and ethical aspects | Financial crises | Religious aspects | Great Britain Economic conditions | Management | Business ethics

Urban renewal | Community development | Housing | Disaster victims | Disaster relief | Emergency housing

Europe Economic policy | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Europe Economic conditions | Regional disparities | Economic development

An estimated 2 billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in these areas, and... 
Economic aspects | War | Economic assistance | Postwar reconstruction | Peace-building | development | Hazards & Disasters | Peace Studies | bottom billion | Politics & Development | Conflict Resolution | Economics and Development | security | qualitative | livelihoods | quantitative | NonProfit Management | Peacekeeping | Collier | social reconstruction | Civil Wars & Ethnic Conflict | ethnography | conflict | humanitarian | Developing countries

"Of all the huge natural disasters that claimed the lives of thousands in Asia, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was the largest, estimated to have killed more... 
Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 | Rehabilitation | Social aspects | Disaster victims | Tsunami relief | Asian Culture & Society | Hazards & Disasters | South East Asian Studies | Environment & Society | Cultural Studies | South East Asian Culture & Society | Urban Studies | Asian Studies | Environmental Management | Social Geography | Disaster victims - Rehabilitation - Thailand | Samhällsvetenskap | Social Sciences | Other Social Sciences | Annan samhällsvetenskap

In international commentary and debate on the effects of the Great Recession and austerity, Ireland has been hailed as the poster child for economic recovery... 
Ireland Economic conditions | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Ireland Politics and government | Public Economics | Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Displacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disruptions in developing or unstable countries.... 
Emergency management | Environmental disasters | Disaster relief | Emergency housing | Environmental refugees | Planning - Human Geography | City and Urban Planning | Hazards & Disasters | Planning and Sustainability | Cities & Infrastructure | Housing and Communities

Emergency management | Electronic data processing departments | Security measures | Disaster relief

Data recovery (Computer science) | Computer security | Telecommunication systems | Security measures

Disaster insurance | Disaster relief

After the Crisis reassesses the twin projects of structural reform and European integration in the wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt... 
Europe Economic integrationHistory | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics