Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 22 Issue 2

Understanding wildfire vulnerability of residents in Teton County, Wyoming

Lucas Kanclerz, Lisa M. DeChano‐Cook

This research aims to examine the wildfire vulnerability of part‐time and full‐time residents in the wildland‐urban interface (WUI) of Teton County, Wyoming. Are part‐time…

Ethnic differences in perceptions of social responsibility: Informing risk communication strategies for enhancing community resilience to flooding

Aaron Mullins, Robby Soetanto

The purpose of this research is to investigate ethnic differences in perceptions of social responsibility, in relation to flooding, for householders, local businesses and policy…

The effect of communication during mass decontamination

Holly Carter, John Drury, G. James Rubin, Richard Williams, Richard Amlôt

Reports from small‐scale incidents in which decontamination was conducted suggest that a successful communication strategy is vital in order to increase public compliance with…

Media and social amplification of risk: BSE and H1N1 cases in South Korea

Ji Bum Chung, Gi Woong Yun

This study aims at exploring the topology of two risk communication cases, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in 2008 and H1N1 in 2009, in South Korea and investigating the…

Developing an approach to assess the influence of integrating disaster risk reduction practices into infrastructure reconstruction on socio‐economic development

Roshani Palliyaguru, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh

Disasters provide physical, social, economic, political and environmental development windows of opportunity particularly through housing and infrastructure reconstruction. The…

Resource challenges for housing reconstruction: : A longitudinal study of the Australian bushfires

Yan Chang‐Richards, Suzanne Wilkinson, Regan Potangaroa, Erica Seville

The purpose of this paper is to identify resourcing challenges that face housing rebuild following the 2009 Victorian “Black Saturday” bushfires in Australia and to examine the…

Disasters Without Borders

Reviewed by Ilan Kelman

Jean Baudrillard: From the Ocean to the Desert or the Poetics of Radicality

Reviewed by Maximiliano E. Korstanje