Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 20 Issue 5
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An International JournalTable of contents
Identification of local information items needed during search and rescue following an earthquake
Gursans Guven, Esin ErgenThis paper aims to identify the local information items that are needed by search and rescue (S&R) teams for an effective disaster response following an earthquake. Currently, it…
Factor analytic structure of the Impact of Events Scale – Revised when used with a firefighting sample
Shannon L. WagnerThe Impact of Events Scale (IES)/Impact of Events Scale – Revised (IES‐R) is arguably one of the most well known tools used to assess post‐traumatic symptomatology. The background…
Israeli response to mass death
Jay LevinsonIn recent years Israel has had extensive experience of dealing with mass disasters. Its response mechanism is always adapting itself to new threat patterns. This paper aims to…
A fuzzy AHP based decision support system for disaster center location selection and a case study for Istanbul
Banu Tuğba Turğut, Gamze Taş, Ahmet Herekoğlu, Hakan Tozan, Ozalp VayvayThe purpose of this paper is to propose a disaster logistics center location selection decision support system, based on analytic hierarchy/fuzzy analytic hierarchy process…
Disaster in Bangladesh and management with advanced information system
S.M. Taohidul Islam, Zamri ChikThis paper aims to document a case study of a disaster in Bangladesh and the role of an information management system for disaster management planning.
Assessment of seismic hazard in Uttarakhand Himalaya
Prabhat Kumar, Ashwini Kumar, Amita SinvhalFor a state like Uttarakhand, which is located in the seismically active Himalayan region and in the vicinity of plate boundaries, estimation of seismic hazards and the…
Social supremacy and its role in local level disaster mitigation planning in Bangladesh
Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim VogtThis paper aims to discuss issues related to disaster mitigation planning provisions in Bangladesh, one of the most disaster‐prone countries in Asia. It seeks to concentrate on…
The Indian Ocean tsunami in Swedish newspapers: nationalism after catastrophe
Anna OlofssonThe purpose of this paper is to analyze how the Swedish mass media constructed Sweden and Swedes during the first days after the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004.
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0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju