Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 27 Issue 4

Warning systems as social processes for Bangladesh cyclones

Ilan Kelman, Bayes Ahmed, Md Esraz-Ul-Zannat, Md Mustafa Saroar, Maureen Fordham, Mohammad Shamsudduha

The purpose of this paper is to connect the theoretical idea of warning systems as social processes with empirical data of people’s perceptions of and actions for warning…

“I don’t want trouble”: Freedom of expression and use of backchannels in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan

Liezel Longboan

Studies which look at disaster affected people’s use of communications technologies often fail to take into account people’s communication rights in their analyses…

FEMA’s fall and redemption—applied narrative analysis

Lex Drennan

The purpose of this paper is to recover the narratives constructed by the disaster management policy network in Washington, DC, about the management of Hurricanes Katrina…

Understanding and measuring scalability in disaster risk reduction

Hannah Vaughan-Lee, Lezlie Caro Moriniere, Isabelle Bremaud, Marilise Turnbull

Despite increased attention to, and investment in, scaling up of disaster risk reduction (DRR), there has been little detailed discussion of scalability. The purpose of…

A novel framework for owner driven reconstruction projects to enhance disaster resilience in the long term

Mittul Vahanvati

Post-disaster reconstruction poses a double-edged sword to its implementers as it demands addressing survivors’ need for speed as well as meeting the growing expectation…

Identifying child victims of the South-East Asia Tsunami in Thailand

Kirsty Wright, Amy Mundorff, Janet Chaseling, Christopher Maguire, Denis I. Crane

The purpose of this paper is to reveal difficulties associated with identifying child victims of the 2004 South-East Asia Tsunami at the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification…