Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 19 Issue 5

Tsunami height poles and disaster awareness: Memory, education and awareness of disaster on the reconstruction for resilient city in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Megumi Sugimoto, Hirokazu Iemura, Rajib Shaw

This paper seeks to demonstrate a unique project with tsunami height poles and disaster education to maintain disaster awareness for several decades in the area where the…

Data collection after massive natural disasters (focusing on Bam earthquake, Iran)

Farzaneh Zolala

The aim of this study is to explore mortality data collection after a destructive earthquake in Bam, Iran.

Social capital and livelihood recovery: post‐tsunami Sri Lanka as a case

Yuriko Minamoto

This paper aims to focus on the relationship between the people's perception of livelihood recovery and micro‐social capital to seek more effective disaster support at the…

Flash flood disasters in Uttarakhand

Ravindra K. Pande

Up to now most of the research into flash flood disaster has examined scientific aspects of this natural phenomenon. This paper aims to focus on the flash flood disaster…

Understanding the antecedents of emergency response: a proposed framework

Chandrakantan Subramaniam, Hassan Ali, Faridahwati Mohd Shamsudin

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for understanding the antecedents of emergency response performance.

Collision of marine vehicles in Bangladesh: a study on accident characteristics

Zobair Ibn Awal, M. Rafiqul Islam, Mazharul Hoque

This paper aims to investigate the marine vehicle accident characteristics in the inland waterways of Bangladesh, with particular emphasis on collision type accidents.

Institutional Compliance Framework and business continuity management in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Singapore

Low Sui Pheng, Liu Jun Ying, Mohan Kumaraswamy

The business environment is fraught with risks and crises. Yet, in spite of the uncertainties faced, many construction companies were not aware of business continuity…

Soldiers of misfortune

The long, long road from Exxon Valdez to Deepwater Horizon

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H.C. Wilson