Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 7 Issue 2

The human factor in industrial disaster

Hayim Granot

So much attention is devoted to the cost of industrial disasters in financial terms and to the technologies that fail at times, that it is possible to lose sight of the…

Hazards in Africa: trends, implications and regional distribution

Elberier O. Mohammed, Babiker A. Abdul Rahman

Examines disasters in Africa between 1964 and 1991. Looks at types, trends, distribution and compares natural and man‐made disasters. Data from the office of the US…

Mitigating flood losses in the active floodplains of Bangladesh

Paul Thompson, Ian Tod

The inhabitants of the active floodplain of Bangladesh’s main rivers receive little government support to help them cope with floods and have developed their own…