Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 28 Issue 5

Understanding gender dimensions of climate-smart agriculture adoption in disaster-prone smallholder farming communities in Malawi and Zambia

Sizwile Khoza, Dewald Van Niekerk, Livhuwani David Nemakonde

Through the application of traditional and contemporary feminist theories in gender mainstreaming, the purpose of this paper is to contribute to emergent debate on gender…

A spatial and integrated flood risk diagnosis: Relevance for disaster prevention at Ourika valley (High Atlas-Morocco)

Oumaima Bennani, Ernest Druon, Frédéric Leone, Yves Tramblay, Mohamed El Mehdi Saidi

The purpose of this paper is to identify vulnerable areas for flood hazard and to analyze stakes exposed in touristic valley of Morrocan mountains. The three goals are…

Public perceptions of pre-incident information campaign materials for the initial response to a chemical incident: The “Remove, Remove, Remove” campaign

Holly Carter, Dale Weston, Charles Symons, Richard Amlot

In the event of a hazardous chemical release incident in the UK, affected members of the public would undergo improvised and interim forms of decontamination (the “Initial…

Resilience in Talcahuano, Chile: appraising local disaster response

Karen Elisabeth Engel, Jeroen Frank Warner

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a qualitative and exploratory study aimed at learning more about the local forms of resilience that emerged in two…

The concept of trust in disasters: the Slovenian experience

Marjan Malesic

The purpose of this paper is to identify the level of public trust in disaster response actors, i.e. the government, civilian disaster response institutions, the military, NGOs…

The endless hurricane: documenting life in the shelters, after Maria hit Dominica

Fernando Briones

Progress, traditions and future directions in research on disasters involving slow-onset hazards

Reidar Staupe-Delgado

The importance of onset speed has been stressed by disaster researchers and inter-governmental bodies for some time, but its meaning and knowledge frontier has not been explored…

The fluidity of risk: Variable vulnerabilities and uncertainties of behavioural response to natural and technological hazards

James Lewis

Considered alone, risk is static; the purpose of this paper is to illustrate risk not as static but as a fluid condition dependent, for example, upon circumstances of its context…

Sensemaking questions in crisis response teams

Jori Pascal Kalkman

When a crisis strikes, responders need to make sense of it to gain an understanding of its origins, nature and implications. In this way, crisis sensemaking guides the…

Study on the application of government affairs micro-blog in the disclosure of government emergency information in China

Liwen Xiang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how government affairs micro-blog (also referred to as GAM) are applied to the disclosure of government emergency information in China…

Dichotomies of disaster management: a reflection on the politics of efficient decision making

David Oliver Kasdan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the variety of dichotomies related to disaster management with an objective to gain a better understanding of how and when dichotomous…

Why lessons learnt are lost: Understanding the complexity of barriers to Build Back Better in Pakistan

Muhammad Haris, Abdur Rehman Cheema, Chamila Subasinghe

The purpose of this paper is to reduce the gap in understanding the complexity of barriers, their modifiers and how these barriers and their modifiers result in malpractices and…

Collective efforts of people to reduce disasters in the Indian Sundarban islands

Mohan Kumar Bera

People from chronic flood-affected areas in the Sundarban islands understand that individual efforts are not sufficient to deal with the floods of increasing magnitude caused by…

Social capacities in fostering water supply resilience in Vanuatu

Behrooz Balaei, Suzanne Wilkinson, Regan Potangaroa

In March 2015 Vanuatu experienced Tropical Cyclone (TC) Pam, a category 5 cyclone with estimated wind speeds of 250 kph and one of the worst disasters in Vanuatu’s history. Prior…