Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 11 Issue 2

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subject:

Table of contents

Improving the quality of non‐emergency leadership: a case study

Merilyn Childs

The core business of fire‐fighting organizations is typically seen as emergency response. For a range of reasons, however, fire‐fighting organizations face increasing pressures to…

Assessing the risk of pollution from ship accidents

Konstantinos Giziakis, Ernestini Bardi‐Giziaki

Ship accidents may create, apart from other damage, environmental pollution. For at least three decades, continuous efforts have been made by various maritime organizations, and…

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Developing disaster management capability: an assessment centre approach

Douglas Paton, Duncan Jackson

Fundamental to disaster readiness planning is developing training strategies to compensate for the limited opportunities available for acquiring actual disaster response…

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Terrorism and 11 September 2001: does the “behavioral response to disaster” model fit?

Henry W. Fischer

A recent question from the research literature is addressed: to what extent does the behavioral response to the natural and technological disaster model apply to terrorist events…

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The need for a holistic theoretical approach: an examination from the El Niño disasters in Peru

David A. McEntire, Christopher Fuller

Is a holistic approach to the disaster problem required? Seeks to answer this question by examining the 1997‐1998 El Niño disasters in Peru. Explores the key factors that…

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Hazard mitigation and sustainable community development

Robert O. Schneider

Emergency management has come to be regarded by many analysts as a critical part of the development of sustainable communities. The emergency management function has been linked…

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Cover of Disaster Prevention and Management

ISSN:

0965-3562

Online date, start – end:

1992

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr JC Gaillard
  • Dr Emmanuel Raju