Natural Disasters and Poverty: An Overview

This book tries to explain the interface between natural disasters and poverty. Providing the conceptual framework of natural disasters, it undertakes the analysis of various definitions and theories of poverty to understand the conception of poverty as a consequence of natural calamities.

Further examining the impact of natural disasters on human life, it profiles the major natural calamities across the world. Finally, it suggests some measures to tackle the problem of poverty and manage the natural disasters effectively.