Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 17 Issue 3

Vulnerability, “innocent” disasters and the imperative of cultural understanding

Terry Cannon

The purpose of this paper is to make an argument that there are different types of social construction of disasters.

Floods in Jakarta: when the extreme reveals daily structural constraints and mismanagement

Pauline Texier

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the root causes of disaster vulnerability in Jakarta, to highlight the strategies and implications of official policies, and to consider…

Survival strategies to overcome inaagosto and nordeste in two coastal communities in Batangas and Mindoro, the Philippines

Soledad Natalia M. Dalisay

The purpose of this study is to describe how the people in two coastal communities in Batangas and Mindoro respond to the effects of these seasonal changes on their lives and…

Living with increasing floods: insights from a rural Philippine community

Jean‐Christophe Gaillard, Michael R.M. Pangilinan, Jake Rom Cadag, Virginie Le Masson

The purpose of this paper is to consider people's ways of coping with increasing flooding in a Philippine rural community.

Poverty alleviation or poverty traps? Microcredits and vulnerability in Bangladesh

Mareen Gehlich‐Shillabeer

It is imperative that microcredit organisations (MCOs) have a high level of awareness of the environmental context in which their clients pursue their livelihoods. This is…

From emergency relief to livelihood recovery: Lessons learned from post‐tsunami experiences in Indonesia and India

Philippe Régnier, Bruno Neri, Stefania Scuteri, Stefano Miniati

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the issue of post‐disaster livelihood recovery through economic rehabilitation, with the illustration of post‐tsunami promotion of…

Tsunami‐resilient communities' development in Indonesia through educative actions: Lessons from the 26 December 2004 tsunami

Julie Morin, Benjamin De Coster, Raphaël Paris, François Flohic, Damien Le Floch, Franck Lavigne

Following the 26 December 2004 tsunami, Planet Risk NGO took part in the international research program TSUNARISK and ATIP‐CNRS Jeune Chercheur. The aim of this paper is to…

Guest editorial

Jean-Christophe Gaillard, Pauline Texier