Disaster Management Ethics - Trainer's Guide - 1st Edition (Disaster Management Training Programme, 104 p.): TOPIC 3: The relationship of disaster response to on-going economic and social development: 38. Ethical Question #1

Disaster Management Ethics - Trainer's Guide - 1st Edition (Disaster Management Training Programme, 104 p.)

TOPIC 3: The relationship of disaster response to on-going economic and social development

		36. Introduction
		37. Ethical Questions
		38. Ethical Question #1
		39. Ethical Question #2
		40. Ethical Question #3
		41. Ethical dilemmas from traditional approaches to emergency assistance
		42. Conceptual assumptions underlying traditional emergency disaster response
		43. New conceptualization
		44. Operational change #1
		45. Operational change #2
		46. Summary

38. Ethical Question #1

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How is it possible to continue to provide emergency relief assistance to the many people who suffer the effects of disasters when there is mounting and incontrovertible evidence that this assistance often undermines, rather than supports, their ability to achieve development?