Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 28 Issue 2

Lessons from tropical storms Urduja and Vinta disasters in the Philippines

Mahar Lagmay, Bernard Alan Racoma

Tropical storms Urduja and Vinta battered the Philippines in December 2017. Despite advances in disaster risk reduction efforts of the country, the twin December storms…

A critical review examining substance use during the disaster life cycle

Bethany Lee Van Brown, Albert M. Kopak, Hannah Marie Hinkel

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to argue that substance use is a real risk for people who experience disaster, and especially so for socially vulnerable…

Real estate advertising campaigns in the context of natural hazards: Evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake

Long Yin, Lin Wang, Lifang Huang, Jinxiu Wang, Hui Xu, Milan Deng

The purpose of this paper is to examine how advertising is used by real estate companies as an instrument for managing the adverse effects of a catastrophe.

A spatiotemporal analysis of fire incidents in Manila from 2011-2016: Implications for fire prevention

Rex Bringula, Francis Balahadia

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of spatiotemporal analysis of the 3,506 fire incidents in the city of Manila from 2011 to 2016.

Public attitudes toward technological hazards after a technological disaster: Effects of the 2015 Tianjin Port explosion, Tianjin, China

Peng Liu, Rui Wang

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the 2015 Tianjin Port explosion – which resulted in more than 100 deaths – changed local residents’ acceptance, perceived…

Gaining public input on natural hazard risk and land-use planning: A case study from New Zealand

Margaret Kilvington, Wendy Saunders

Risk-based land-use planning is a major tool for reducing risks and enabling communities to design for and mitigate against natural hazard events. Moving towards a…

Institutional foundations of disaster risk reduction policy: Exploring and elaborating on two different cases: Argentina and Sweden

Veronica De Majo, Jan Olsson

The purpose of this paper is to explore and elaborate on how institutional conditions work to the advantage and disadvantage of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies on…

Examining inter-organizational roles in Philippine post-disaster MHPSS delivery

Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Nico A. Canoy, Arsenio Sze Alianan Jr

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical grounding on the management of inter-organizational roles in the delivery of mental health and psychosocial services…

Inter-organisational learning in public safety management system

Katarzyna Ewa Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek, Barbara Kożuch, Jeremi Szczygłowski

The purpose of this paper is to recognition and understanding of the inter-organisational learning processes in the public safety management system.

Erratum

The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters

David Oliver Kasdan