Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 25 Issue 1

The game changes: “Disaster Prevention and Management” after a quarter of a century

David E. Alexander

The purpose of this paper is to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of Disaster Prevention and Management. It reviews the modern-day challenges facing researchers, scholars…

Enhancing disaster preparedness of specialty nurses on a national scale

Marion L. Mitchell, Loretta McKinnon, Leanne M Aitken, Sarah Weber, Sean Birgan, Sharon Sykes

The number of disasters has increased by 30 per cent worldwide in the past 30 years. Nurses constitute the largest clinical group within a hospital and their ability to respond to…

Local responses to disaster: The value of community led post disaster response action in a resilience framework

Raven Marie Cretney

When the devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand on the 22 February 2011 the landscape of the city and its communities were irrevocably…

Flood policy in Spain: a review for the period 1983-2013

Jorge Olcina, David Sauri, Maria Hernández, Anna Ribas

The purpose of this paper is to assess the main changes regarding flood policy in Spain during the period 1983-2013, that is right after the large and very damaging episodes of…

Earthquake disasters, marriage, and divorce: evidence from China 2000-2011

Xian Xu, Jingbing Feng

– The purpose of this paper is to identify the effects earthquakes may have on rates of marriage and divorce in China, a country strongly affected by losses due to earthquakes.

Collaboration and communication: Building a research agenda and way of working towards community disaster resilience

Peter Rogers, Judy Burnside-Lawry, Jelenko Dragisic, Colleen Mills

The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of Participatory Action Research (PAR), reporting on a collaboration, communication and disaster resilience workshop in…

Boston sport organizations and community disaster recovery

Bryan Finch

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the role played by sport organizations in the community recovery efforts in Boston following the 2013 marathon bombings.

A research-based primer on the potential psychosocial impacts of flooding

Sarb Johal, Zoe Mounsey

Following recent flooding in New Zealand a brief review of research on psychosocial impacts of flooding was undertaken to identify lessons. The paper aims to discuss this issue…

The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

David Oliver Kasdan