Product Description: Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying demand for a fuller understanding...read more

Product Description: Attempts to increase understanding of emergent and resurgent infectious diseases and health ecology in developing areas. It provides empirical information on the nature and context of cholera and bacillary dysentry in Mozambique, a country undergoing major demographic and political changes...read more