Samir Elhawary
Samir Elhawary
Humanitarian reform has regained urgency in 2025 amid funding shortfalls, rising global needs, and a deepening crisis of legitimacy. Unlike past efforts, today's reform imperative - shaped by geo-political shifts and a retreat of traditiona...
How and why famines form: towards an integrated approach to causation [0.03%]
饥荒的形成及其原因——一种因果关系的整体性方法如何及为何饥饿成为人类灾难本身是一个令人困惑的问题。尽管有各种尝试，但一个全面和经得起检验的理论仍然缺失。本文利用新的数据集，把一系列因素纳入分析中去：人口统计学、政治制度、环境影响以及国际援助，并且在1870-2000年期间对全球范围内的饥荒进行考察。研究结果显示，在这四个领域中的每一个都有助于解释为何某些地方的饥饿比其他地方更严重，但它们都未能单独说明一个国家何时会经历饥荒。然而，当它们一起出现时，则能更好地预测那些最容易发生人类灾难的地方，并且有助于预防这些灾难的发生。
Paul Howe
Paul Howe
In recent years, there has been renewed global concern about the risk of famine, prompting calls for a greater focus on prevention. Yet, for preventive efforts to be successful, it is critical to understand what causes these extreme crises....
Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery [0.03%]
祈求与感谢上帝——信仰和宗教社团在灾后恢复中的作用
Virgil Henry Storr,Jordan K Lofthouse,Nona Martin Storr
Virgil Henry Storr
Faith and faith communities play a critical role in post-disaster recovery for at least three reasons. First, faith is a socially shared frame through which individuals understand a disaster and evaluate potential means of recovery. Second,...
Social cohesion, trust, and utilisation of maternal health services among refugee and host community women in Bangladesh and Kenya [0.03%]
社会凝聚力、信任与难民及收容社区妇女利用产前保健服务情况（孟加拉和肯尼亚）
HaEun Lee,Ryan Rego,Neyat Fiseha et al.
HaEun Lee et al.
The global refugee crisis places significant pressure on host communities, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Social cohesion and trust between refugee and host communities are critical for maternal health service utilisation...
Disaster colonialism: indigenous tribal community responses to Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan [0.03%]
莫拉克风灾中的台湾原住民部落社区的反殖民抗争模式研究
Hui-Nien Lin,Sasala Taiban
Hui-Nien Lin
Limited research has been conducted to date on how disaster colonialism shapes, maintains, or destroys social organisations and relationships within indigenous societies. This study was conducted within the Hot Spring Tribal Community (HSTC...
Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of 'localisation' in Myanmar's complex emergency [0.03%]
顺应与殖民性：援助官僚体制及缅甸复杂人道主义应急中的“本地化”失败
Anne Décobert,Pyae Phyo Maung,Alec Scott et al.
Anne Décobert et al.
In this article, we explore how logics and systems of coloniality are reproduced through the bureaucracy of international aid. Drawing on qualitative research with civil society and international aid workers in Myanmar, we examine tensions ...
Humanitarian virtue: identifying ethics and values in humanitarian thinking [0.03%]
仁道价值：论人道思想中的伦理与价值观
Vandra Harris Agisilaou,Tuba Boz
Vandra Harris Agisilaou
This paper proposes that ethical thinking provides a useful lens for understanding how different approaches to humanitarian thinking may be connected through the values that underpin them. In the era of polycrisis, humanitarianism is contin...
Cash grants to informal firms after Cyclone Idai: beyond the null [0.03%]
cyclone idai 之后对非正规企业的现金补助：超越零假设
Hanna Berkel,Peter Fisker,Finn Tarp
Hanna Berkel
This study investigates the effects of unconditional cash grants on informal manufacturing firms' recovery after Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique in 2019. Using a novel stratified adaptive cluster sampling approach, we collected representativ...
How inclusive is disaster risk reduction? Perceptions and predicaments of persons with disabilities during disaster in Assam, India [0.03%]
包容性灾害风险减少了吗？印度阿萨姆邦残疾人在灾难期间的感知与困境
Vivien Doll,Sumit Vij,Jeroen Warner
Vivien Doll
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) are disproportionately affected by disasters. Disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction (DIDRR) focuses on decreasing the vulnerability of PWDs and enhancing their capacities in disaster, yet little is kn...
Thi Mui Nguyen,Ilan Noy,Yigit Saglam
Thi Mui Nguyen
This study examines the impacts of earthquakes on individual subjective well-being, using data from New Zealand's General Social Survey and a difference-in-difference-in-difference approach. By matching this with Earthquake Commission insur...