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Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 10 Issue 3

Strapline:

An International Journal

Category:

Environmental Management / Environment

Table Of Contents

Emergency preparedness and disaster management in Hawaii

Ross Prizzia, Gary Helfand

The research is an administrative case study based on an extensive review of Hawaii government documents and interviews with key personnel of the Hawaii Emergency…

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Study on emergency response preparedness of hazardous materials transportation

M.S. Aini, A. Fakhru’l‐Razi, M. Daud, W.M.N. Ibrahim, S.K. Tangavelu

Notes the recent increase in interstate shipments of hazardous materials, by road, in Malaysia following rapid expansion in the manufacturing sector. Although there has…

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Triggering agents, vulnerabilities and disaster reduction: towards a holistic paradigm

David A. McEntire

Discusses the nature of disaster and the future of emergency management. After exploring differing historical perspectives of disaster, puts forth a model of vulnerability…

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Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

H. Wilson

Hurricanes of the North Atlantic: Climate and Society

H. Wilson

Mozambique & the Great Flood of 2000

H. Wilson

The Perception of Risk

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Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

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Currents of Change: Impacts of El Niño and La Niña on Climate and Society

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Dam safety

E-mail lists

Earthquakes

Pollution

Earthquakes

Home Secretary considers job ban for "corporate killers"

Fires and Explosions

IBHS unveils new home building program

International calendar

All hazards

Extreme heat

Floods

Volcanoes

Disaster medicine and mental health

Marine

Weather

Directors likely to quit over "corporate killing" law

Railway accidents

Time running out for corporate killers, companies warned

Editorial

Henry C. Wilson

Aviation

On the Canadian natural hazards assessment project

Climate change, drought, and El Niño

Comets, asteroids, and other cosmic catastrophes

ISSN:

0965-3562

Online date, start – end:

1992

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr JC Gaillard
  • Prof. Emmanuel Luna

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