Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 16 Issue 5
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An International JournalTable of contents
An overview on disasters
Ibrahim Mohamed ShalufThis paper seeks to provide graduate students, researchers, and government and independent agencies with an overview of disasters.
Disaster types
Ibrahim Mohamed ShalufThis paper aims to provide graduate students, researchers, and government and independent agencies with an overview of disaster types.
Human hazard analysis: A prototype method for human hazard analysis developed for the large commercial aircraft industry
Philip Lawrence, Simon GillThis paper sets out to outline a human hazard analysis methodology as a tool for managing human error in aircraft maintenance, operations and production. The methodology developed…
An overview on BLEVE
Ibrahim Mohamed ShalufThis paper aims to provide graduate students, researchers and government and independent agencies with an overview on BLEVE (i.e. boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion).
A model Citizen's Charter for disaster management in Uttaranchal (India)
Ravindra K. Pande, Rajnish PandeThe purpose of the paper is to persuade all partners in disaster management to take action and create a pair of synergistic and invincible forces – government and people – that…
Human impact issues for crisis management in organizations
Rick A. Myer, Christian Conte, Sarah E. PetersonThe purpose of this article is to describe the adaptation of an assessment model, the Triage Assessment System (TAS), which is widely used in crisis intervention to understand the…
Spatial recognition of a rock fall velocity model developed in C++ using Geographic Information Sciences (GIS)
Ranjan Deka, A.K. Pachauri, Bharat BhushanThe purpose of this paper is to strive to develop a rock fall velocity model in C++ language and to give spatial attributes to the model using Geographic Information System (GIS…
Balanced scorecard for natural disaster management projects
Tun Lin Moe, Fritz Gehbauer, Stefan Senitz, Marc MuellerWith the recognition of the necessity for effectively and successfully managing natural disaster projects for saving human lives and preventing and minimizing the impacts of…
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0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju