Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 11 Issue 1
Strapline:
An International JournalCategory:
Environmental Management / EnvironmentTable Of Contents
The unseen enemy: the “dark horse”
Håkan PreiholtThe study’s focal point is the obvious parameter that we all have in most of our relationships, which is the unknown parameter. What is it that we do not know? In other…
Are Hong Kong companies prepared for crisis?
John K.S. Chong, Mee‐Kau NyawSince its handover from the UK to the People’s Republic of China on 30 June 1997, Hong Kong has been struck by a number of crises. This paper reports the results of an…
Marine accident prevention: an evaluation of the ISM code by the fundamentals of the complexity theory
Alexander M. Goulielmos, Constantinos B. GiziakisThe scientific world has for a long time worked with linear tools to explain complex non‐linear phenomena. Also non‐linear relationships were transformed to linear in…
Media reporting of Third World disasters: the journalist’s perspective
Roger Bennett, Martin DanielEditors or senior journalists within a sample of 21 leading UK newspapers were questioned about their opinions of the quality of the information about foreign (especially…
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0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Prof. Emmanuel Luna