Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 21 Issue 4

Preparedness: the state of the art and future prospects

Yannick Hémond, Benoît Robert

The purpose of this paper is to show the evolution of the concept “state of preparedness” into “state of resilience” in the context of emergency management, and the implications…

Characteristics and influences of H1N1 communication on college students

Alexis Koskan, Caroline Foster, Jack Karlis, India Rose, Andrea Tanner

The purpose of this paper is to assess how college students received and responded to H1N1 pandemic emergency preparedness information and to assess college students’ knowledge…

Effectiveness of educational tools for hurricane resilience in homes

Tyler Strayhorn, Sudipta Dasmohapatra, Dave Tilotta, Phil Mitchell

In the disaster mitigation community, one of the most important tasks is that of information transfer prior to, and following natural disasters. The purpose of this research…

The ethics of disaster management

Sara Kathleen Geale

Ethics is the foundation on which societies and cultures are based and are fundamental to political, social and economic decision making. Ethical dilemmas have created controversy…

Preparedness of schools in the Province of Jeddah to deal with earthquakes risks

Naill M. Momani, Asad Salmi

The purpose of this study is to measure the willingness of general education schools (governmental and private) in the Mecca region to deal with the threat of earthquakes through…

Resilience and adaptation of small and medium‐sized enterprises to flood risk

Gayan Wedawatta, Bingunath Ingirige

The UK has experienced a number of flood events in recent years, and the intensity and frequency of such events are forecast to further increase in future due to changing climatic…

Disaster management in Cameroon: the Lake Nyos disaster experience

Henry Ngenyam Bang

The purpose of this paper is to review critically, how the Lake Nyos disaster (LND), which occurred in 1986, is being managed by examining the immediate post disaster management…

Assessing emergency management training and exercises

Helen Sinclair, Emma E. Doyle, David M. Johnston, Douglas Paton

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how training or exercises are assessed in local government emergency management organisations.

La Humanidad Amenazada: Gobernar los Riesgos Globales (Humankind Under Threat: Governing Global Risks)

Maximiliano E. Korstanje