Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 23 Issue 3

Rights and obligations in international humanitarian assistance

George Kent

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for understanding the rights and obligations of different parties in relation to international humanitarian assistance.

Organisational features and their effect on the perceived performance of emergency management organisations

Roshan Bhakta Bhandari, Christine Owen, Benjamin Brooks

This study reports on a survey of experienced emergency management personnel in Australia and New Zealand to identify the influence of organisational features in perceived…

Selected leadership demographics as predictors of continuity planning

Christopher B. Davison

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings that describe any correlations between leadership demographic characteristics with that of the levels of business continuity…

Framing disaster resilience : The implications of the diverse conceptualisations of “bouncing back”

Paulina Aldunce, Ruth Beilin, John Handmer, Mark Howden

To confront the increasingly devastating impacts of disasters and the challenges that climate change is posing to disaster risk management (DRM) there is an imperative to further…

Remote sensing and spatial multi-criteria analysis for tsunami vulnerability assessment

Abu Bakar Sambah, Fusanori Miura

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the vulnerability of the Kesennuma area in Japan to a tsunami disaster and to map the area of inundation.

Qualitative research can improve understandings about disaster preparedness for independent older adults in the community

Robyn Tuohy, Christine Stephens, David Johnston

Improving older adults’ preparedness for and response to natural disasters has become an important issue. Population ageing, together with concerns about increasing extreme…

Multilevel Governance and Emergency Management in Canadian Municipalities

John Lindsay