The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of broad based popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy required to safeguard its budget and administering institution?
Australia s Foreign Aid Dilemma tells the story of the actors who have grappled with this question over forty years. It draws on extensive interviews and archival material to uncover how "court politics" shapes both aid policy and administration. The lesson for scholars and practitioners is that any holistic understanding of the development enterprise must...
The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of broad based popular support, should it generate the political legiti...
Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particular catastrophes, Disaster Research provides a much-needed multidisciplinary perspective of the area.
This book is is structured thematically around key approaches to disaster research from a range of different, but often complementary academic disciplines. Each chapter presents distinct approaches to disaster research that is anchored in a particular discipline; ranging from the law of disasters and disaster historiography to...
Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particul...
