Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 5 Issue 1

An attempt to link risk assessment with land use planning: a recent experience in Italy

Scira Menoni, Floriana Pergalani

Shows a framework to assess urban and regional vulnerability. Starting from the first attempts to measure the vulnerability component of risk (the latter given as the…

Limitations to the use of military resources for foreign disaster assistance

Charles Kelly

The recent increase in the use of military resources for foreign disaster assistance has raised questions about the appropriateness of this role for the military. Argues…

Disaster prevention and limitation: state of the art; tools and technologies

Chakib Kara‐Zaitri

Carries a review and critique on technology transfer applications to the management of man‐made type disasters. Covers state‐of‐the‐art applications of quality, risk and…

Personality and emergency command ability

Rhona Flin, Georgina Slaven

A relationship between personality and incident/emergency command ability is often assumed to exist, yet little research has explicitly examined such a relationship. Good…