Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 26 Issue 2

“Bouncing back” after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Lynn M. Grattan, Babette Brumback, Sparkle M. Roberts, Stacy Buckingham-Howes, Alexandra C. Toben, Glenn Morris

The psychological and behavioral consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster were among the most widespread, long term, and costly of all oil spill-related disasters…

Information disclosure in an environmental emergency

Qiang Li, Wenjuan Ruan, Wenjie Shao, Guoliang Huang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the demands of the core stakeholders and how these stakeholders drive the information disclosure behaviors of the enterprise and local…

Post-project review in urban disaster risk reduction

Juan-Pablo Sarmiento, Philip Gelman, Gustavo Jordão, Patricia Bittner

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of a post-project review (PPR) method designed to verify the accomplishments of urban disaster risk reduction-neighborhood…

Urban critical infrastructure interdependencies in emergency management: Findings from Abeokuta, Nigeria

David O. Baloye, Lobina Gertrude Palamuleni

The purpose of this paper is to map the cascade effects of emergencies on critical infrastructure in a fast-growing city of a developing country. The paper specifically seeks to…

A context-centred, root cause analysis of contemporary terrorism

Ihab Hanna Sawalha

The purpose of this paper is threefold: identifying the root causes and other causal factors of terrorism, exploring the recent shifts in terrorist activity, and proposing a…

Community-based social partnerships in crisis resilience: a case example in Greece

Maria Drakaki, Panagiotis Tzionas

The purpose of this paper is to describe in-depth a community-based social partnership, emerged in response to the financial crisis in Greece, with members from the private…

Climate change from the lens of Malolos children: perception, impact and adaptation

Kristoffer Berse

The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to understand how Filipino children perceive climate change; second, to determine how children themselves adapt to its impacts; and…

Developing disaster mutual assistance decision criteria for electricity industry

Ali Asgary, Ben Pantin, Bahareh Emamgholizadeh Saiiar, Jianhong Wu

Disaster mutual assistance (DMA) or mutual aid is a reciprocal arrangement between organizations that permits and prearranges one company to access resources from another company…

Physical bushfire preparation over time in Victoria, Australia

Carlyn Muir, John Gilbert, Rebecca O’Hara, Lesley Day, Stuart Newstead

The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of physical preparation for bushfire among Victorian residents in established high risk bushfire locations, and to assess whether…