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Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 11 Issue 4

Strapline:

An International Journal

Category:

Environmental Management / Environment

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Disaster‐preparedness of health maintenance organizations

Kakoli Bandyopadhyay

Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are becoming increasingly dependent on health management information systems (HMISs) for their effective functioning. Because of…

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When will they ever learn? The conditions for failure in publicly funded high technology projects: the R101 and Challenger disasters compared

David Weir

Governments of all political complexions seek economic advantage through supporting high profile projects in the field of high technology. “High tech” becomes a mantra…

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Interpretation of subjective ratings: some fundamental aspects

D.W. Lloyd, H. Wilson

The use of subjective scores and rankings has become familiar in the context of hazard assessment and risk analysis in health and safety. Less familiar, however, are the…

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Should marine insurance companies take seriously chaos theory?

Alexander M. Goulielmos, Constantine Giziakis, Michalis Pasarzis

The purpose of this article is really to provide an answer to the question: Why have marine accidents that result in ships lost have, over the years, been concentrated in…

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Aviation

Railway accidents

Perspectives from Ground Zero: our latest quick response reports

International calendar

In Central America, communities embrace disaster preparedness

Silent disasters

Henry C. Wilson

Remembering loss and sharing grief

Fires and explosions

Miscellaneous

Corporate killing laws not improving unhealthy attitudes to health and safety in British businesses

World Trade Center related injuries

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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