Population and disaster

Introduction / Peter Curson

The impact of natural disasters on the population of Japan / Takeshi Mizutani and Takamasa Nakano

The consequences of the 1972 earthquake on the urban structure and population distribution of Managua / Jürgen Bähr

Friuli : ten years after the earthquake of 6 May 1976 / Robert Geipel

The impact of the disaster in Mexico City, September 1985 / Maria Teresa Gutierrez de MacGregor

Population displacement due to riverbank erosion of the Jamuna in Bangladesh / K. Maudood Elahi

The hazard potential of drought for the population of the Sahel / C.R. de Freitas

The 1984 drought and settler migration in Ethiopia / Aynalem Adugna

The indirect effects of famine on population : case studies from the Republic of the Sudan / A. Trilsbach.

China : the demographic disaster of 1958-1961 / A.J. Jowett

Paradise delayed : epidemics of infectious disease in the industrialized world / Peter Curson

Disasters and diseases as they affect the growth and distribution of the population of Uganda / Hans K. Hecklau

The disaster life cycle and human adjustments : lessons from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl / Chris C. Park

The Bhopal disaster / S.L. Kayastha and Prithvish Nag

Wars, mortality, poverty / Stanislaw Otok

Was the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, a demographic disaster? / Maria Carmen Faus Pujol

Population, war and politics : a case study of the Gaza strip / Ahmed Said Dahlan.

The disaster of apartheid forced removals / C.M. Rogerson

A simulation study of population and social disturbance in Japan / Koichiro Takahashi

Conclusion / John I. Clarke.