Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 14 Issue 1

Restoring straightened rivers for sustainable flood mitigation

This article aims to show how communities with severe river flooding can develop sustainable flood plans that remediate environmental problems caused by previous river…

Pilot project results of an integrated security management system

Aims to report the key results and learnings of a pilot test of an ISO‐based integrated management systems approach to security, environmental, health, and safely (SEH&S…

“Gripped by fear”: Public risk (mis)perception and the Washington, DC sniper

This paper aims to examine the roots of public fear and often‐distorted reality of risk, and proposes methods by which emergency management agencies can successfully…

Analysis of Royal Inquiry Report on the collapse of a building in Kuala Lumpur: Implications for developing countries

Malaysia, which is in an intermediary phase of development and industrialization, has experienced various magnitudes of disasters ranging from biological, structural…

Appraisal of safety practices in agro‐allied industries in south‐western Nigeria

This paper aims to investigate the safety practices in some selected agro‐allied industries in south‐western Nigeria with a view to analysing the degree of safety…

Using assignment model as an automated recovery system

This paper aims to deal with disaster and recovery systems, introducing the catastrophe matrix as a disaster‐preventing tool.

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