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...
Spatial variability assessment of river‐line floods and flash floods in Himalaya : A case study using GIS
Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 135-159
– The main objective of the study is to identify the vulnerable areas for
river‐line and flash flood hazard and its mitigation through GIS Database
Management System (DBMS) of geo‐hydrometeorological parameters. The Dabka
watershed constitutes a part of the Kosi Basin in the Lesser Himalaya, India in
district Nainital has been selected for the case illustration., – The Dabka DBMS
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Triggering agents, vulnerabilities and disaster reduction: towards a holistic paradigm
Tập 10 Số 3 - Trang 189-196
Discusses the nature of disaster and the future of emergency management. After
exploring differing historical perspectives of disaster, puts forth a model of
vulnerability and highlights the plethora of factors that contribute to
calamitous events. Introduces the concept of invulnerable development as a
method of vulnerability management and compares it to other terms that have been
proposed as gu...