Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 13 Issue 1

Forms of community participation and agencies’ role for the implementation of water‐induced disaster management: protecting and enhancing the poor

Water‐induced hazards and disasters are usually compounded by the mismanagement of local water resources. Since the community bears the burden of disaster and is the first…

Risk assessment of accidental spills of toxic and flammable liquids on land

The main objective of this paper is the assessment of the environmental impact due to accidental spills of toxic and flammable liquids on land. Different case studies of possible…

GIS/RS for landslides zonation in Pos Slim‐Cameron Highlands district, Peninsula Malaysia

Remote sensing data and GIS techniques have been used to create thematic maps for assessment and estimation of landslide hazards, in Pos Slim‐Cameron Highlands area, Peninsula…

Aviation accident aetiology: catastrophe theory perspective

Human error is often cited as a major contributing factor or cause of incidents and accidents. Incident surveys in aviation have attributed 70 per cent of incidents to crew error…

Linking experience, education, perception and earthquake preparedness

To understand the impact of earthquake experience and education on awareness, a survey was conducted with 1,065 high school first grade students from five prefectures of Japan…

Quality in shipping: IMO’s role and problems of implementation

The focus of this paper is on the role of the United Nation’s Agency for the maritime affairs, i.e. the International Maritime Organisation, in the setting of quality and safety…

Climate Change

Security Issues

Volcanoes

Marine

A suicide bomb in a Haifa restaurant

Railways accidents

All hazards

Volcanoes

Miscellaneous

All hazards

Floods

Earthquakes

International calendar

Electronic Fare

Pollution

Workshop Redux – 2003 session summaries now available

Aviation

Are we doing enough?

Floods and drought

Fire