Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 5 Issue 2

Fallible decisions in management: learning from errors

José Blanco, John H. Lewko, David Gillingham

Systems in the natural resource industry vary in their tolerance of human errors. Such operations are open to fallible decisions resulting from the way in which the…

Risk and organizational behaviour: a research model

Clive Smallman

We live in times of increasing dynamism in the natural, social and business environments; with such dynamism comes fear, uncertainty and doubt. As a result the discipline…

Trends and fatality of natural disasters in the Arab world

A.F. Al‐Madhari, M.O. Elberier

Examines attitudes to disasters in Arab countries and argues that they are frequently not reported and therefore not analysed in sufficient detail. Using data from the US…

Disaster prevention: current topics

Trevor A. Kletz

Describes some changes made to improve the environment which have had unforeseen and adverse effects on safety and the reasons why we need more case histories. Also…