Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 27 Issue 4
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An International JournalTable of contents
Warning systems as social processes for Bangladesh cyclones
Ilan Kelman, Bayes Ahmed, Md Esraz-Ul-Zannat, Md Mustafa Saroar, Maureen Fordham, Mohammad ShamsudduhaThe purpose of this paper is to connect the theoretical idea of warning systems as social processes with empirical data of people’s perceptions of and actions for warning for…
“I don’t want trouble”: Freedom of expression and use of backchannels in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan
Liezel LongboanStudies which look at disaster affected people’s use of communications technologies often fail to take into account people’s communication rights in their analyses, particularly…
FEMA’s fall and redemption—applied narrative analysis
Lex DrennanThe purpose of this paper is to recover the narratives constructed by the disaster management policy network in Washington, DC, about the management of Hurricanes Katrina and…
Understanding and measuring scalability in disaster risk reduction
Hannah Vaughan-Lee, Lezlie Caro Moriniere, Isabelle Bremaud, Marilise TurnbullDespite increased attention to, and investment in, scaling up of disaster risk reduction (DRR), there has been little detailed discussion of scalability. The purpose of this paper…
A novel framework for owner driven reconstruction projects to enhance disaster resilience in the long term
Mittul VahanvatiPost-disaster reconstruction poses a double-edged sword to its implementers as it demands addressing survivors’ need for speed as well as meeting the growing expectation to…
Identifying child victims of the South-East Asia Tsunami in Thailand
Kirsty Wright, Amy Mundorff, Janet Chaseling, Christopher Maguire, Denis I. CraneThe purpose of this paper is to reveal difficulties associated with identifying child victims of the 2004 South-East Asia Tsunami at the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification (TTVI…
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0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju