Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 3 Issue 4
Strapline:
An International JournalTable of contents
Applying NIMH‐FEMA Formulas to the Gulf War in Israel: Needs Assessment for Psychosocial Services in Emergencies
Hayim GranotEstimating the needs for psychosocial intervention in the wake of massemergencies is closely linked to the sharp controversy over theemotional impact of traumatic events. Briefly…
Measuring up to Disaster: The Necessity for Valid Baseline Data
M.R.D. SeawardMonitoring air, water and soil contamination by means of animals,plants, fungi and bacteria is increasingly in demand for assessingenvironmental quality, environmental impacts…
Coping in the Emergency Context
Carmen C. Moran, Neil R. BrittonCoping style has been examined across a variety of stressful encounters,but surprisingly little is known about coping in the emergency ordisaster context. Examines coping…
Risk Management and Damage Mitigation at IAT ’94
D.F. HeathcoteDescribes the emergency management structure created for theInternational Air Tattoo ’94 at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.Describes the table‐top discussion and live exercise…
Socio‐technical Disasters: Profile and Prevalence
Bill RichardsonExamines socio‐technical disasters, particularly during the 1980s and1990s, listing the organizational situations in which they occur andsingling out Hillsborough (football) and…
ISSN:
0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju