This special issue explores the increased interest and engagement by donor and national governments in ‘stabilising’ contexts affected by armed conflict and complex emergencies, and considers its implications for international humanitarian action.
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Articles in the latest issue explore mental health training following 9/11, the societal impacts of natural disasters and disaster response coordination through social networks.
Articles in the latest issue explore US free trade agreements and policy flexibility, elites, rent-cycling and land scarcity in Mauritius, and experience of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India.
Articles in the latest issue explore links between local government discretion and accountability in decentralisation, institutional diversity in African cotton sectors and the pro-poor functions of small-scale fisheries in developing countries.
Amongst other subjects, articles in the latest issue explore community cohesion after natural disasters, organisational socialisation in a crisis context, urban earthquake hazard and disaster recovery, and financing of internal displacement.
This special issue deals with questions of how humanitarian action is shaped in practice and how it affects the societies where it is implemented.
Amongst other topics, articles in the latest issue examine state-building and service-delivery in fragile states, taxation and financing for development, and integrating poverty and environmental concerns into value chain analysis.
In the wake of the Haiti earthquake, this virtual issue presents Disasters articles on urban disaster recovery, cost effectiveness of disaster preparedness, post-earthquake delivery of relief and livelihood support, and survivor needs and the psychological impact of earthquakes.
