World disasters report 1997.

Includes references and index

Section one, key issues -- Changing NGOs and the crisis of confidence, Can military intervention and humanitarian action coexist? -- Section two, methodologies -- From information management to the 'knowledge agency', Epidemiological data for disaster decision-making -- Section three, the year in disasters 1996 -- Aid trends: raising questions amid falling funds -- Somalia: aid where there is no government -- High-cost hazards in the Caribbean -- Mitigating and managing floods in China -- Old diseases and new epidemics in NIS -- Section four, disasters database -- Facts and figures for effective response -- Section five, Red Cross and Red Crescent -- From codes of conduct and standards of performance -- National societies: working as a federation -- The International Federation network of regional and country delegations