Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal
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Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context
Tập 32 Số 2 - Trang 298-310
This article examines how farmers' assignment of responsibility for the disaster
in late 2015 – early 2016 connects with reflexivity, habitus and local
vulnerability.,This article uses semi-structured interviews with 28
disaster-affected households in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta to answer the
question.,This article finds out that Vietnamese farmers actively accepted their
responsibility for the di...
Volcanic hazard perceptions: comparative shifts in knowledge and risk
Tập 8 Số 2 - Trang 118-126
Residents of two North Island, New Zealand, communities were surveyed in March
1995 to measure their understanding of volcanic hazards. This was repeated in
November 1995, following the Ruapehu eruptions of September‐October 1995. Both
communities were subjected to intense media coverage during the 1995 Ruapehu
eruption. Whakatane was spared any direct effects, whereas Hastings experienced
the haz...
Risk ‐ two views: the public’s and the experts’
Tập 5 Số 4 - Trang 41-46
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; their decisions may not be right but the reasons for them are
usually made clear. In contrast, the reasons for the public’s decisions are
usually implicit, that is, they have to be deduced from their actions, but
neverthe...
Gujarat earthquake – some emerging issues
Tập 10 Số 5 - Trang 349-355
Recently, a powerful earthquake of the magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter Scale
that rocked the western Indian state of Gujarat has caused extensive damage to
life and property. Apart from human misery, it has devastated the state
physically, socially and economically. Discusses some issues which emerged from
this disaster on search and rescue, relief and rehabilitation, scientific and
technical, com...