Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 5 Issue 4

Reducing seismic vulnerability in low to moderate risk areas

Henry W. Fischer, Charles K. Scharnberger, Charles J. Geiger

Argues that, while the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (USA) is found to be a low to moderate risk area in terms of seismic vulnerability, it is vulnerable to future episodes which…

Editorial: Understanding nuclear risks…and their control

There are over 400 nuclear reactors operating worldwide of which over 30 are in UK power stations. Describes the efforts made since Chernobyl to improve and control standards of…

My practical experience in emergency management

G.H. Moore

Charts the career of the author through the fire service and the subsequent major disasters which occurred during that time. Advocates the importance of adequate disaster plans…

Decision making in emergencies

John Cosgrave

Proposes that decision making is part of all management tasks and that it is particularly important for emergency managers as they often need to take decisions quickly on very…

Disaster subcultures

Hayim Granot

The term “disaster subculture”, was introduced in the 1960s and 1970s, but has since not been given a great deal of attention. Even though it is still referred to in passing, the…

Risk ‐ two views: the public’s and the experts’

Trevor A. Kletz

Technologists and the public look at risks in different ways: technologists try to find a way of estimating the size of each risk and then try to deal with the bigger ones first;…