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The organizational confusion, absence of local counterpart structures, shortage of technical resources and sovereign prerogatives that plagued UN relief programs in Bangladesh, the Sahel and Ethiopia were starting revelations for those who viewed relief assistance as humanitarian aid, distinct from political considerations and cost-benefit analysis. This book is organized around the issues that have most frequently arisen in the reporting of natural disasters and in the numerous efforts to reform international relief assistance. The contributors view the problems of relief assistance as essentially managerial. Their critical essays focus generally on the areas of relief coordination, disaster preparedness, disaster-related technology and politics.
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