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Disaster mitigation framework for India using quality circle approachPurpose Given the widespread lack of proper mechanism for disaster management, this paper aims to develop a disaster mitigation framework using quality circle (QC) – a bottom‐up approach. Design/methodology/approach The paper conside...
Emerald - - 2006
Developing an approach to assess the influence of integrating disaster risk reduction practices into infrastructure reconstruction on socio‐economic developmentPurpose Disasters provide physical, social, economic, political and environmental development windows of opportunity particularly through housing and infrastructure reconstruction. The reconstruction process should not be neglected due to the opportunistic nature of facilitating innovation in development. In this respect, po...
Emerald - - 2013
Marine accident prevention: an evaluation of the ISM code by the fundamentals of the complexity theoryThe scientific world has for a long time worked with linear tools to explain complex non‐linear phenomena. Also non‐linear relationships were transformed to linear in order to be handled. This was so despite the fact that nature has been giving us examples showing that the real world was complex, dynamic and non‐linear. This was so until developments in computer science provided the calcul... ...
Emerald - Tập 11 Số 1 - Trang 18-32 - 2002
Sustainable resorts: learning from the 2004 tsunamiPurpose Given the extensive destruction resulting from the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that destroyed and damaged resort complexes in southern Thailand, the purpose of this research paper is to focus on the planning of architecture of resorts in two layers: the relationship of structures and land use to the natural...
Emerald - Tập 15 Số 3 - Trang 429-447 - 2006
Mass fatality management after the Indian Ocean tsunamiPurpose This study aims to conduct the first original research on mass fatality management in nearly 30 years. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research design captured local perspectives within a culturally‐appropriate cont...
Emerald - Tập 17 Số 5 - Trang 681-697 - 2008
Dealing with mass death in disasters and pandemicsPurpose There are many differences in how authorities handle the dead during mass death incidents involving disasters and pandemics. These differences would suggest that planning for a disaster death and planning for a pandemic death should be done separately. This may be true to some extent, however, there are many similari...
Emerald - - 2011
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