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Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 12 Issue 4

Strapline:

An International Journal

Category:

Environmental Management / Environment

Table Of Contents

Insurance and disaster management: the Indian context

Atmanand

Key elements of disaster management are prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and relief, rehabilitation. The various stakeholders in the process of disaster…

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Technological disaster’s criteria and models

Ibrahim M. Shaluf, Fakharul‐razi Ahmadun, Sa’ari Mustapha

Disasters are classified as natural and man‐made disasters. Man‐made disaster, which occurs at the major hazard installation, is a technological disaster. For an incident…

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Paradoxes of power: the separation of knowledge and authority in international disaster relief work

Nalini Suparamaniam, Sidney Dekker

One of the most obvious problems for those involved with disaster relief work is coordination with other teams in the field, with headquarters, with the mother…

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Outlining organisational failure in information systems development

Markos Goulielmos

Defines the concept of “organisational failure” in information systems (IS) development, and proposes a diagnostic model drawn from research done into IS consultancy firms…

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Psychotrauma in Moluccan refugees in Indonesia

Joost Waas, Anke van der Kwaak, Maurice Bloem

This study examines the mental health initiatives in two locations of Loluccan internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and investigates whether those…

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Comprehensive Emergency Management for Local Governments: Demystifying Emergency Planning

James A. Gordon

Orientation Manual for First Responders on the Evacuation of Crisis Management in a Crowded Humanitarian Space: The Politics of Hosting Refugee Influxes

Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change

Michael Collier, Robert H. Webb

Transportation Disaster Response Handbook

Jay Levinson, Hayim Granot

American Disasters

Steven Biel

The Tornado: Nature’s Ultimate Windstorm

Thomas P. Grazulis

Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams

Seventh US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (7NCEE): Urban Earthquake Risk

Marine

Best Practices in Natural Hazards Planning and Mitigation

Communicating in a Crisis: Risk Communication Guidelines for Public Officials

Awards for Excellence

Health Care at the Crossroads: Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Community-wide Emergency Preparedness Systems

A Federal Employee's Emergency Guide

New York City Department of Buildings World Trade Center Building Code Task Force Findings and Recommendations

Will Duct Tape and Plastic Really Work? Issues Related to Expedient Shelter-In-Place

All hazards

Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook

Avalanche

Communication during Volcanic Emergencies

Earthquakes

International calendar

Pollution

Disaster Reduction for Sustainable Mountain Development

Why Can't We Talk? Working Together to Bridge the Communications Gap to Save Lives – A Guide for Public Officials

Editorial

Henry C. Wilson

The Public Transportation System Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning Guide

Orientation Manual for First Responders on the Evacuation of People with Disabilities

Preparing Makes Sense: Get Ready Now

Federal Manager's/Decision Maker's Emergency Guide

The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program in NEHRP – Investing in a Safer Future

Terrorism

Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation

Wildfire

Floods and drought

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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