Ethical Corporation Journal

Great for all you CSR freaks!

Ethical Corporation Journal: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/

What is a Disaster?

BUCKLE, P., MARSH, G. AND SMALE, S., 2002. Re-Framing Risk, Hazards, Disasters and Daily Life: A report of research into local appreciation of risks and threats. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 20 (3): 309-324.

DRABEK, T. AND MCENTIRE, D., 2003. Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster: lessons, trends and opportunities from the research literature. Disaster Prevention and Management, 12 (2): 97-112.

FROSDICK, S., 1997. The techniques of risk analysis are insufficient in themselves. Disaster Prevention and Management, 6 (3): 165-177.

KIRSCHENBAUM, A. (2004). Generic Sources of Disaster Communities: A Social Network Approach. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 24 (10-11). 94-129.

McENTIRE, D. (2001). Triggering agents, vulnerabilities and disaster reduction: towards a holistic paradigm. Disaster Prevention and Management, 10 (3). 189-196.

MCENTIRE, D., 2004. Development, disasters and vulnerability: a discussion of divergent theories and the need for their integration. Disaster Prevention and Management, 13 (3): 193-198.

QUARANTELLI, E. (2001). Statistical and conceptual problems in the study of disasters. Disaster Prevention and Management, 10 (5). 325-328.

SHALUF, I., AHMADUN, F. AND SAID, A. (2003). A review of disaster and crisis. Disaster Prevention and Management, 12 (1). 24-32.

STEAD, W. AND STEAD, J., 1994. Can humankind change the economic myth? Paradigm shifts necessary for ecologically sustainable business. Journal of Organisational Change Management, 7 (4): 15-31.

VATSA, K. (2004). Risk, Vulnerability, and Asset-based Approach to Disaster Risk Management. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 24 (10-11). 1-48.

Hard Choices – Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention

 

This is a towering book that should be a obligatory read for every disaster manager. With contributions from academics such as Mary Anderson (Rising from the Ashes), politicians such as Kofi Annan and the ‘real thing’ such as General Romeo Dallaire (Head of UN Peacekeepers during Rwandan genocide), this uncompromising and insightful book from the Red Cross is a headlong tackle into the darkest moral quagmires of humanitarian intervention. Events such as Darfur make this pre-Kosovo book even more relevant than ever. Unique and superb in every way.

http://www.disasternetwork.co.uk/170007.htm

Some good papers on accountability

BLEWITT, R., 2005. Good donorship: how serious are the donors? Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (29): 4-6.

BRABANT, K., 2000. Regaining perspective: the debate over quality assurance and accountability. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (17): 22-25.

COLLISON, D., 2003. Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 16 (5): 853-886.

DAVIS, A., 2003. Accountability and humanitarian actors: speculations and questions. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 16-18.

LEADER, N., 1999. Codes of conduct: who needs them? Relief and Rehabilitation Network Newsletter, no.13: 1-4.

MACRAE, J. AND HARMER, A., 2003. Good humanitarian donorship: a mouse or a lion? Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 9-12.

MITCHELL, J., 2003. Accountability: the three-lane highway. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 2-4.

WILLITTS, B., 2005. The EU: good humanitarian donorship and the world’s biggest humanitarian donor. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (29): 10-13.

Network on Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA)

The Network On Humanitarian Assistance offers a Europe-wide Masters Degree in International Humanitarian Action. I have met a number of graduates of this programme and they seem to maintain a strong network as well as being an extremely intresting alternative to the Tufts/Harvard/MIT triumvate

http://www.noha.deusto.es/