Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 32 Issue 2

Trust in disaster resilience

Elisa Fornalé, Marco Armiero, Laura Odasso

The erosion of ‘trust’ (among citizens as well as within and between institutional levels) is a worrying aspect of these turbulent times in Europe and beyond. Trust (between…

Toward development of comprehensive national disaster response plans: an evaluation of Nigeria's national disaster response plan, 2002

Sani Mashi, Kabir Idris, Isa Abubakar Yakubu Kazaure

Development of a disaster response plan at a national level is regarded as the best way to undertake country-level disaster management in a well-coordinated manner, involving all…

Post-disaster neoliberal normalization in the 1985, 2010 and 2015 Chilean earthquakes

Juan Saavedra, Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta

This article analyzes biopolitical strategies for the recovery of neoliberal normality in urban areas affected by earthquakes in 1985, 2010 and 2015 in Chile (intensity >8.0_Mw).

Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context

Kien Nguyen-Trung

This article examines how farmers' assignment of responsibility for the disaster in late 2015 – early 2016 connects with reflexivity, habitus and local vulnerability.

Viewing humanitarian project closure through the lens of an ethics of the temporary

Lisa Eckenwiler, Matthew R. Hunt, Jan Joy Louise G. Crismo, Elyse Conde, Shelley-Rose Hyppolite, Mayfourth Luneta, Isabel Munoz-Beaulieu, Handreen Mohammed Saeed, Lisa Schwartz

In this paper, the authors propose a new lens to examine international humanitarian organizations' responsibilities in the context of project closure, what authors call “an ethics…

Gender and leadership in the wake of the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in Chile

Ana Gabriela Fernández Saavedra, Rosario González Arias, Sandra Dema Moreno, Virginia Cocina Díaz

The aim of this article is to reveal the extent to which a disaster situation contributed to fostering leadership in the population affected in terms of gender.

The dynamics of cross-sector collaboration in disasters

Khiam Jin Lee, Sanna K. Malinen, Venkataraman Nilakant

This study examines challenges to cross-sector collaboration in disasters. The authors use Malaysian flooding as the context for the study and offer a framework to understand…

The blame game: disaster, queerness and prejudice

Ashleigh Rushton, Jazmin Scarlett

The purpose of this article is to draw attention to how harmful and inaccurate discourses pertaining to disaster responsibility is produced, the negative implications such…

From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies

Jason von Meding, Ksenia Chmutina

Vulnerability is a label and a concept that is widely used in disaster studies. To date the meaning has been quite limited and implied “weakness”, with criticisms arising…