Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 5 Issue 5

Local mass media operations in disasters in the USA

E.L. Quarantelli

Summarizes, under 12 general propositions, the findings from a series of field studies by the Disaster Research Center about the operations of the local mass media in…

Training disaster workers: promoting wellbeing and operational effectiveness

Douglas Paton

Describes the use of schema theory to conceptualize how disaster experience can undermine well‐being and operational performance and discusses how this approach provides a…

Risk management and disasters

A.Z. Keller, A.F. Al‐Madhari

Presents a method of analysis to obtain risk profiles for major adverse events. The method is based on a previously published method for probabilistically modelling…

The role of the police in the total management of disaster

Lars Nylén

Presents a Swedish police chief’s analysis of the operational command concept, defining different tactical situations and ways to improve command functions. Police…

Experiences gained from the First Internet Disaster Conference

A.Z. Keller, E.L. Coles, R. Heal

Discusses the background of the First Internet Disaster Conference. Debates the advantages and disadvantages of Internet conferencing, and covers the lessons learnt and…