Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 25 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Vested interest: developing scales for assessing flooding preparedness
Bradley Adame, Claude H MillerThe purpose of this paper is to report research testing scales developed from a combination of vested interest (VI) theory and the extended parallel process model of fear appeals…
Assessing the benefits of organized voluntary emergency services: Concepts and evidence from flood protection in Austria
Gabriel Bachner, Sebastian Seebauer, Clemens Pfurtscheller, Anja BruckerThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the benefits of organized voluntary emergency services (OVES) in the case of flood events, since such information is mostly not available…
Competing paradigms of flood management in the Scottish/English borderlands
Brian Cook, John Forrester, Louise Bracken, Christopher Spray, Elizabeth OughtonThe purpose of this paper is to explore how flood management practitioners rationalise the emergence of sustainable flood management. Key to this analysis are differences rooted…
Using reasoned imagination to learn about cascading hazards: a pilot study
Arnaud Mignan, Anna Scolobig, Anne SauronThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a pilot study involving high school teachers in natural sciences. The aim was to foster critical thinking about cascading…
A communications intervention to motivate disaster risk reduction
Anne M. Sanquini, Sundar M. Thapaliya, Michele M. WoodThe purpose of this paper is to apply social theory to the creation of a mass-media communications intervention designed to encourage earthquake-resistant construction in Nepal…
Land use change on U.S. floodplain buyout sites, 1990-2000
Elyse Zavar, Ronald R. Hagelman IIIThe Federal Emergency Management Agency provides guidelines for the management of open space created through property acquisition (buyouts); however, land use decisions are…
Competence-based system development for post-disaster project management
Jason von Meding, Joel Wong, Sittimont Kanjanabootra, Mojgan Taheri TaftiOne of the key elements contributing to successful post-disaster project teams is individual competence. Each project participant brings his or her own knowledge, experience and…
Informational capital and disaster resilience: the case of Jalin Merapi
Justyna Tasic, Sulfikar AmirThe purpose of this paper is to present a concept of informational capital to explain the interplay between social capital and information technology in community-based disaster…
Monitoring and evaluating disaster risk management capacity
Zoe Scott, Kelly Wooster, Roger Few, Anne Thomson, Marcela Tarazona– The purpose of this paper is to focus on improving the monitoring and evaluation of DRM capacity development initiatives.
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0965-3562e-ISSN:
1758-6100ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju