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: 39. Ethical Question #2

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

39. Ethical Question #2

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To what extent is the heroic act of disaster response undertaken as a one-time, dramatic gesture which is satisfying for the giver of assistance in its apparent measurable success (lives saved, hungry people fed), while the more dogged and less clear work of long-term poverty alleviation is avoided precisely because it is not so satisfying?

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