Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 26 Issue 3

Linking disaster risk reduction, climate change, and the sustainable development goals

Ilan Kelman

The purpose of this paper is to better link the parallel processes yielding international agreements on climate change, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable development.

An integrative approach to understand vulnerability and resilience post-disaster: The 2015 cyclone Pam in urban Vanuatu as case study

Tony Rey, Loic Le De, Frederic Leone, David Gilbert

The purpose of this paper is to develop a multidimensional approach for effectively managing natural disasters; this paper has three research objectives. First, it…

From K-Pop to K-Preparedness: Korea confronts disaster reduction

David Oliver Kasdan, Kyehyun Kim

The purpose of this paper is to describe a recent effort by the South Korean Government to stimulate a domestic disaster risk reduction (DRR) technology industry for the…

First responder well-being following the 2011 Canterbury earthquake

Daniel Shepherd, David McBride, Kirsten Lovelock

The role of first responders in mitigating the effects of earthquakes is vital. Unlike other disasters, earthquakes are not single events, and exposure to dangerous and…

Forensic investigation of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster: A case study of Rikuzentakata

Tadashi Nakasu, Yuichi Ono, Wiraporn Pothisiri

Using the forensic investigation (FORIN) approach, the purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that exacerbated the loss of human life in one of the most…

Political participation and long-term resilience in pre-Columbian societies

Peter Neal Peregrine

The purpose of this paper is to examine the political participation in pre-Columbian societies to determine empirically if greater local participation in political…

Religious struggles after Typhoon Haiyan: a case study from Bantayan Island

Erin P. O’Connell, Roger P. Abbott, Robert S. White

The purpose of this paper is to examine religious struggles and loss of faith in Christian survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and explore whether any…

Client values within post-disaster reconstruction contracting services

Sadegh Aliakbarlou, Suzanne Wilkinson, Seosamh B. Costello, Hyounseung Jang

The purpose of this paper is to explore and prioritize the key client values within contracting services for reconstructing the built environment in post-disaster situations.

A normative model for integrating organisations for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation within SADC member states

Livhuwani David Nemakonde, Dewald Van Niekerk

Research has demonstrated that governance of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) have evolved largely in isolation from each other – through…

Atlas Vulnerability and Resilience/Atlas Verwundbarkeit und Resilienz

Patrick Pigeon, Alexander Fekete, Gabriele Hufschmidt