The following is a selection of critical perspectives on human-influenced or -induced disasters (like war and famine), international disaster relief efforts, and the linkages among environmental degradation, human rights violations, and disasters.

Bread for the World Institute. 1990. Hunger 1990. Washington, DC: BWI.

Broad, Robin and John Cavanagh. 1993. Plundering paradise: The struggle for the environment in the Phillippines. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Cahill, Kevin M. 1993. A framework for survival: Health, human rights, and humanitarian assistance in conflicts and disasters. New York: Basic Books.

Cohen, L.J. 1993. Broken bonds: The disintegration of Yugoslavia. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea, Richard Jolly, and Frances Stewart (eds.). 1988. Adjustment with a human face, Vol 2. Oxford. UK: Claredon Press.

DeWaal, Alex. 1989. Famine that kills. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

Doornbos, Martin et. al. (Eds.) 1992. Beyond conflict in the Horn. Trenton: Red Sea Press.

Harrel-Bond, B.E. 1986. Imposing aid: Emergency assistance to refuges. London: Oxford UP.

Human Rights Watch and Natural Resources Defense Council. 1992. Defending the earth: Abuses of human rights and the environment. Washington, DC: HRW, NRDC.

Maskrey, Andrew. 1989. Disaster mitigation: A community based approach. Development Guidelines No. 3. Oxford, UK: Oxfam.

National Research Council. 1991. A safer future: Reducing the impacts of natural disasters. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Radcliff, Sarah A. and Sallie Westwood (eds.). 1993. Viva: Women and popular protest in Latin America. New York, London: Routledge.

Rau, Bill. 1991. From feast to famine. London: Zed Books.

Richards, Paul. 1985. Indigenous agricultural revolution. Hutchinson.

United States Department of State. 1993. Hidden killers: Global problem with uncleared landmines. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.