Risk, Shocks, and Human Development

Acknowledgements Introduction Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What do we Know, What do we Need to Know? Shocks That cheat its survivors: disasters and long term development Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment The Impact of Climatic and Geological Hazards on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico The Effects of Earthquakes on Children and Human Development in Rural El Salvador The Short and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence Impact of Extreme Climate Events on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Cross Section Data and Welfare Projection The Effects of Mortality Shocks on Household Spending on Education, Health and Nutrition Intergenerational Effects of the 1959-61 China Famine Evidence on the link between migration, climate shocks and adaptive capacity Social Capital and Crisis Coping in Indonesia Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief Natural hazards and unnatural disasters: A survey of the gendered terrain of risk, vulnerability and disaster relief Public Responses to Climatic and Geological Hazards Conclusion: Exploring the Interface between Private mechanisms and Public policies: a challenge for research