Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal
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Volcanic hazard perceptions: comparative shifts in knowledge and risk
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal - 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......
Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) unveils new airline inspection program
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal - Tập 8 Số 2
Statistical and conceptual problems in the study of disasters
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal - Tập 10 Số 5 - Trang 325-338
The area of disaster studies is plagued by dubious statistical data and widespread conceptual disagreements. This is the major focus of discussion in the paper. We detail the limitations in much of the numerical data that are both specifically and generally used in discussions of disasters. Factors that are responsible for this, including inadequate conceptualizations about disasters are discussed......
Risk ‐ two views: the public’s and the experts’
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal - 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......
Spatial variability assessment of river‐line floods and flash floods in Himalaya : A case study using GIS
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal - 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 is constituted of......
Triggering agents, vulnerabilities and disaster reduction: towards a holistic paradigm
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal - 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......
Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal - 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......
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