More with Less: Disasters in an Era of Diminishing Resources

Contents

foreword xi acknowledgments xv list of abbreviations xvii introduction Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. 1 Preparedness Globalization, Growth, Poverty, Governance, and Humanitarian Assistance Dominick Salvatore 11 WFP: Organizational Maintenance in Uncertain Times Masood Hyder 34 Disasters—A Nation’s Experience in an Economic Recession Ronan Murphy 50 What Can Modern Society Learn from Indigenous Resiliency? Margareta Wahlstrom 70 CONTENTS viii | Contents Response Providing for the Most Vulnerable in the Twenty-First Century Flavia Bustreo, M.D. 77 Noncommunicable Diseases and the New Global Health Thomas J. Bollyky 95 Humanitarian Response in the Era of Global Mobile Information Technology Valerie Amos 110 Disasters and the Media Jeremy Toye 123 Toward a Culture of Safety and Resilience Irina Bokova 142 Education and Disaster Management Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., and Alexander van Tulleken, M.D. 160 Entrepreneurial Approaches Capitalizing on Travel and Tourism in Preparing for Trouble Richard Gordon 175 Business in an Age of Emergency Richard Branson 198 An Afghan Media Tale Thomas Freston 214 Terror, Transformed: A Financier’s Journey into Social Entrepreneurship Michael Pollack 229 notes 249 list of contributors 263 Contents | ix the center for international humanitarian cooper ation and the institute of international humanitarian affairs 267 index 269 ...