Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 25 Issue 3

Vested interest: developing scales for assessing flooding preparedness

Bradley Adame, Claude H Miller

The purpose of this paper is to report research testing scales developed from a combination of vested interest (VI) theory and the extended parallel process model of fear…

Assessing the benefits of organized voluntary emergency services: Concepts and evidence from flood protection in Austria

Gabriel Bachner, Sebastian Seebauer, Clemens Pfurtscheller, Anja Brucker

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the benefits of organized voluntary emergency services (OVES) in the case of flood events, since such information is mostly not…

Competing paradigms of flood management in the Scottish/English borderlands

Brian Cook, John Forrester, Louise Bracken, Christopher Spray, Elizabeth Oughton

The purpose of this paper is to explore how flood management practitioners rationalise the emergence of sustainable flood management. Key to this analysis are differences…

Using reasoned imagination to learn about cascading hazards: a pilot study

Arnaud Mignan, Anna Scolobig, Anne Sauron

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a pilot study involving high school teachers in natural sciences. The aim was to foster critical thinking about…

A communications intervention to motivate disaster risk reduction

Anne M. Sanquini, Sundar M. Thapaliya, Michele M. Wood

The purpose of this paper is to apply social theory to the creation of a mass-media communications intervention designed to encourage earthquake-resistant construction in…

Land use change on U.S. floodplain buyout sites, 1990-2000

Elyse Zavar, Ronald R. Hagelman III

The Federal Emergency Management Agency provides guidelines for the management of open space created through property acquisition (buyouts); however, land use decisions…

Competence-based system development for post-disaster project management

Jason von Meding, Joel Wong, Sittimont Kanjanabootra, Mojgan Taheri Tafti

One of the key elements contributing to successful post-disaster project teams is individual competence. Each project participant brings his or her own knowledge…

Informational capital and disaster resilience: the case of Jalin Merapi

Justyna Tasic, Sulfikar Amir

The purpose of this paper is to present a concept of informational capital to explain the interplay between social capital and information technology in community-based…

Monitoring and evaluating disaster risk management capacity

Zoe Scott, Kelly Wooster, Roger Few, Anne Thomson, Marcela Tarazona

– The purpose of this paper is to focus on improving the monitoring and evaluation of DRM capacity development initiatives.

Riesgos al Sur: diversidad de riesgos de desastres en Argentina (Risks Southwards: Diversity of Risks in Disaster-Related Contexts for Argentina)

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje