Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 15 Issue 4

Preparing for bushfires: understanding intentions

To examine the relationship between behavioural intentions and preparing for bushfire hazards and to test the hypothesis that intentions can inform how people reason about…

Leadership in complex, stressful rescue operations: a qualitative study

To develop a theoretical understanding of leadership in stressful, complex rescue operations.

Risk management for vibrant economic growth and sustained development

The paper seeks to makes a correlation between poverty; and disaster‐induced losses and to clearly put forth a hypothesis for deepening poverty in India; the disaster �…

Hazard zonation in Uttaranchal (India): a tool to understand the problem

Up to now most of the research into disaster has examined scientific aspects of the natural phenomena, statistical and geographic records of their occurrence and social…

Himalayan population at earthquake risk: Strategies for preparedness

Seeks to examine risk assessment of human settlements due to seismo‐tectonic setting of a populated area in the Himalayas, so that mitigation measures may be taken before…

Disaster mitigation framework for India using quality circle approach

Given the widespread lack of proper mechanism for disaster management, this paper aims to develop a disaster mitigation framework using quality circle (QC) – a bottom‐up approach.

Systems engineering design and spatial modeling for improved natural hazard risk assessment

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel modeling approach that combines a balanced systems engineering design model with a geospatial model to explore the complex…

Earthquake disaster risk management planning in schools

This paper aims to develop an appropriate earthquake disaster management system for Iranian schools with a main focus on non‐structural problems of schools during disasters.

All Hazards

Earthquakes

Climate Change

Wildfire

Marine

Weather

New Quick Response Reports from the Natural Hazards Center

Floods

Hurricane protection and damage reduction: what went wrong in New Orleans

Editorial

USGS National Earthquake Center Goes 24/7

House and White House release Katrina findings

Hurricanes

Tsunamis

Health

Pollution

Earthquakes

National plan for tsunami risk reduction

International calendar

US billion-dollar weather and climate disasters

Awards for Excellence

Pacific Disaster Center and Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative Launch New Disaster Risk Management Communication Tool

NOAA collaborates with Australian counterparts