Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 20 Issue 5

Identification of local information items needed during search and rescue following an earthquake

Gursans Guven, Esin Ergen

This paper aims to identify the local information items that are needed by search and rescue (S&R) teams for an effective disaster response following an earthquake. Currently, it…

Factor analytic structure of the Impact of Events Scale – Revised when used with a firefighting sample

Shannon L. Wagner

The Impact of Events Scale (IES)/Impact of Events Scale – Revised (IES‐R) is arguably one of the most well known tools used to assess post‐traumatic symptomatology. The background…

Israeli response to mass death

Jay Levinson

In recent years Israel has had extensive experience of dealing with mass disasters. Its response mechanism is always adapting itself to new threat patterns. This paper aims to…

A fuzzy AHP based decision support system for disaster center location selection and a case study for Istanbul

Banu Tuğba Turğut, Gamze Taş, Ahmet Herekoğlu, Hakan Tozan, Ozalp Vayvay

The purpose of this paper is to propose a disaster logistics center location selection decision support system, based on analytic hierarchy/fuzzy analytic hierarchy process…

Disaster in Bangladesh and management with advanced information system

S.M. Taohidul Islam, Zamri Chik

This paper aims to document a case study of a disaster in Bangladesh and the role of an information management system for disaster management planning.

Assessment of seismic hazard in Uttarakhand Himalaya

Prabhat Kumar, Ashwini Kumar, Amita Sinvhal

For a state like Uttarakhand, which is located in the seismically active Himalayan region and in the vicinity of plate boundaries, estimation of seismic hazards and the…

Social supremacy and its role in local level disaster mitigation planning in Bangladesh

Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt

This paper aims to discuss issues related to disaster mitigation planning provisions in Bangladesh, one of the most disaster‐prone countries in Asia. It seeks to concentrate on…

The Indian Ocean tsunami in Swedish newspapers: nationalism after catastrophe

Anna Olofsson

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the Swedish mass media constructed Sweden and Swedes during the first days after the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004.

Editorial

Douglas Paton