Alcira Kreimer

Margaret Arnold

Anne Carlin

In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery.

The Future of Disaster Risk

Building Safer Cities

the future of disaster risk

Building safer cities

Mohan Munasinghe

Ronald Parker

Ronald Steven Parker

The collection of papers in the book Property Rights and the Environment: Social and Ecological Issues, (*) and this companion volume examine the relationships between people, the environment, and property rights and the ways in which a given social and ecological context affects those relationships. The papers are products of a research program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. The main objective of the program was to convene social scientists and natural scientists to address research questions in their full social and ecological dimensions. The program's participants addressed five general issues related to property rights and the environment: (1) the design of governance systems for sustainability; (2) the relationship between equity, stewardship, and environmental resilience; (3) the use of traditional knowledge in resource management, (4) the mechanisms that link people to their environments, and (5) the role played by population and poverty. This volume presents case studies that address questions of design application in those five areas. (*) Also available: Property Rights and the Environment: Social and Ecological Issues. (ISBN 0-8213-3415-8) Stock No. 13415.

The Turkey Case Study

Informal Settlements, Environmental Degradation, and Disaster Vulnerability

Roy Gilbert

Learning from the World Bank's Experience of Natural Disaster Related Assistance

Alcira Kreimer

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