Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 16 Issue 5

An overview on disasters

This paper seeks to provide graduate students, researchers, and government and independent agencies with an overview of disasters.

Disaster types

This 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

This 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

This 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)

The 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

The 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)

The 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

With the recognition of the necessity for effectively and successfully managing natural disaster projects for saving human lives and preventing and minimizing the impacts of…

Pollution

Fire and explosion

Aviation

On the web

Marine

Severe weather

Miscellaneous

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