Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 33 Issue 2

Categorising potential non-disasters

Brady Podloski, Ilan Kelman

This short paper builds on and critiques work presenting potential non-disasters: disasters that did not seem to happen despite a major hazard. Previous work does not…

The potential for community-driven ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in South Asia: a literature review

Damithri Chathumani Lansakara, Loic Le De, Michael Petterson, Deepthi Wickramasinghe

The paper reviews existing literature on South Asian ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and identifies how community participation can be used to plan and implement…

Learning to manage the unexpected: applying Weick and Sutcliffe’s HRO principles to oil tanker accidents

Bianca Amici, Maria Luisa Farnese

Weick and Sutcliffe identified five principles that enable high-reliability organizations (HROs) to address environmental complexity and manage unexpected events. The current…

Community and governmental perspectives on climate disaster risk finance instruments in Colombia

Cristian Camilo Fernández Lopera, José Manuel Mendes, Eduardo Jorge Barata, Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel

At the global level, disaster risk finance (DRF) is playing an increasingly prominent role in the international agendas for climate change adaptation. However, before implementing…

Projects for queering disaster: reciprocal knowledge exchange and practice

A.J. Faas, Jhaid Parreno

The purpose of this study is to identify LGBTQ+ perceptions of and experiences with hazards, vulnerabilities and disasters in the San Francisco Bay Area in the USA and to…

A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia

Emmanuel Raju, Suchismita Goswami, Nishara Fernando, Mayeda Rashid, Eti Akter, Nyima Dorjee Bhotia, Aditi Sharan, Mihir Bhatt, J.C. Gaillard

This conversation highlights the need to rethink how we approach disaster risk reduction in different South Asian contexts.