Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 30 Issue 2

Post-disaster permanent housing: the case of the 2003 Bingöl earthquake in Turkey

Fatma Kürüm Varolgüneş

In this study, the effects of permanent housing (PH) practices carried out after an earthquake in Turkey were investigated with a case study. Determining the factors that increase…

Good governance and local level policy implementation for disaster-risk-reduction: actual, perceptual and contested perspectives in coastal communities in Bangladesh

M. Salim Uddin, C. Emdad Haque, Mohammad Nuruzzaman Khan

Despite Bangladesh's great strides in formulating disaster management policies following the principles of good governance, the degree to which these policies have successfully…

“Inamura no hi” (“the rice bale fire”), its evolving story and global relevance: the politics of tsunami preparedness in Japan

Christopher Scott Thompson

This paper aims to reintroduce to proponents of natural disaster readiness worldwide the history and content of the most renowned tsunami mitigation tale in Japan, “Inamura no Hi”…

Disaster justice for people with disabilities

Khanh That Ton, Carole Adamson

The purpose of this article is to examine disaster justice for people with disabilities (PWD).

Why is evacuation so difficult? Sociocultural aspects of landslide disaster in Ponorogo, Indonesia

Dian Purworini, Desi Puji Hartuti, Dini Purnamasari

Sociocultural aspects of populations residing in disaster-prone areas have not often been discussed in disaster evacuation studies. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to…

Lost (and found?) in translation: key terminology in disaster studies

Ksenia Chmutina, Neil Sadler, Jason von Meding, Amer Hamad Issa Abukhalaf

Disaster studies has emerged as an international interdisciplinary body of knowledge; however, similar to other academic disciplines, its terminology is predominantly anglophone…

Crisis communication planning and nonprofit organizations

Brittany Haupt, Lauren Azevedo

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of crisis communication and management along with its inclusion into the field and practice of emergency management. This…

Social capital and livelihood strategies in response after 2013 Kedarnath disaster (India)

Sakshi Naithani, Ashis Kumar Saha

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the role of livelihood assets, strategies and local social networks in disaster response and recovery in post-disaster setting of 2013…

The correlations between livelihood capitals and perceived recovery: A longitudinal study in China after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Ziqiang Han, Lei Wang, Jianwen Wei

This study examines the recovery of households after disasters from the sustainable livelihood approach (SLA) perspective.

Crisis management in high-reliability organizations: lessons from Brazilian air disasters

Victor Meyer Jr, Miguel Piña e Cunha, Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio, Danillo Prado Nogueira

The focus of this study was to analyze crisis management in a context of high-reliability organizations (HRO) evidenced in two cases of Brazilian air disasters. Aspects of human…

Assessing public health risk factors for internally displaced households in North Darfur, Sudan

Elfadil Mohammed Mahmoud, Indraijt Pal, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad

The purpose of this paper is to assess the public health risk factors of internally displaced households and suggest appropriate measures and strategies for health risk reduction…

How fringe cyclone experience affects predictions of damage severity

Mitchell Scovell, Connar McShane, Anne Swinbourne, Daniel Smith

This paper aims to understand how experience with the fringe effects of a cyclone influences perception of cyclone severity. Understanding how certain types of experience…