Author: Clarke, John; Curson, Peter; Kayastha, S.L.; & Nag, Prithvish; editors:
Title: Population and Disaster
Description: Oxford, Basil Blackwell, (1989). orig.boards. 25x16cm, x,291 pp, Series: Institute of British Geographers, Special Publications Series, 23.. Textual maps,graphs & tables. Some minor rubbing,a bump to spine, light page-edge soil, VG. d ¶ Contains 18 papers + Introduction & Conclusion. Includes: T. Mizutani & T. Nakano "The Impact of Natural Disasters on the Population of Japan"; J. Bahr "The Consequences of the 1972 Earthquake on the Urban Structure & Population Distribution of Managua"; R. Geipel "Friuli: Ten Years After the Earthquake of 6 May 1976"; M.T.G. de MacGregor "The Impact of the Disaster in Mexico City, September 1985"; K.M. Elahi "Population Displacement due to Riverbank Erosion of the Jamuna in Bangladesh"; C.R. de Freitas "The Hazard Potential of Drought for the Population of the Sahel"; A. Adugna "The 1984 Drought & Settler Migration in Ethiopia"; A. Trilsbach "The Indirect Effects of Famine on Population: Case Studies from the Republic of the Sudan"; A.J. Jowett "China: The Demographic Disaster of 1958-1961"; P. Curson "Paradise Delayed: Epidemics of Infectious Disease in the Industrialized World"; H.K. Hecklau "Disasters & Diseases as They Affect the Growth & Distribution of the Population of Uganda"; C.C.Park "The Disaster Life Cycle & Human Adjustments: Lessons from Three Mile Island & Chernobyl"; S.L. Kayastha & P. Nag "The Bhopal Disaster"; S. Otok "Wars - Mortality - Poverty"; M.C.F. Pujol "Was the Spanish Civil War,1936- 1939, a Demographic Disaster?"; A.S. Dahlan "Population, War & Politics: A Case Study of the Gaza Strip"; C.M. Rogerson "The Disaster of Apartheid Forced Removals"; K. Takahashi "A Simulation Study of Population & Social Disturbance in Japan".

Keywords: Population Catastrophes, Demographic, Disasters Disaster, Natural Catastrophe, Demography, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Floods Drought, Disease Epidemics