Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 28 Issue 3

Sinabung volcano: how culture shapes community resilience

Marta Mori, Ronan McDermott, Saut Sagala, Yasmina Wulandari

The purpose of this paper is to explore how culture, including traditions and social structures, can influence resilience and how culturally sensitive relief operations can put…

Conflicts in adaptation: case studies from Nepal and the Maldives

Phu Doma Lama, Per Becker

Adaptation appears to be regarded as a panacea in policy circles to reduce the risk of impending crises resulting from contemporary changes, including but not restricted to…

Using a Luhmannian perspective for earthquake resilience: Inventory of local associations in Düzce province

Berat Yoldaş, Helga Ida Rittersberger Tılıç

The purpose of this paper is to interpret Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory to discuss disaster resilience, and use its “functional method” for creating “local organizational…

Challenges of disaster training: implication for federal and state university libraries in Nigeria

Promise Ifeoma Ilo, Margaret Ngwuchukwu, Happiness Chijioke Michael-Onuoha, Chidi Segun-Adeniran

The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges affecting disaster training in federal and state university libraries in Southwest Nigeria with a view to finding ways of…

Appraisal of fire safety interventions and strategies for informal settlements in South Africa

Richard Shaun Walls, Rodney Eksteen, Charles Kahanji, Antonio Cicione

Informal settlements are inherently unstructured in nature, lack adequate services, regularly have high population densities and can experience social problems. Thus, fires can…

Effects of the classification system in international SAR: The case of the 2015 Nepal earthquake

Yosuke Okita, Rajib Shaw

The purpose of this paper is to analyse if the classification system introduced by International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), or INSARAG External Classification…

An evidence-based urban DRR strategy for informal settlements

Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Suzanne Polak, Vicente Sandoval

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evidence-based research strategy (EBRS) used to evaluate eight projects that applied the neighborhood approach for disaster risk…

Disaster relief trials: perceptions of a disaster-themed bicycling event

Sarah Bundy Kirkpatrick

Bicycling enthusiasts have been organizing community events in US cities to demonstrate how bicycles may be of use in the aftermath of a disaster event. The purpose of this paper…

Evaluation of an organization-based psychological first aid intervention

Ma. Regina M. Hechanova, Jason O. Manaois, Hiro V. Masuda

The purpose of this paper is to develop and assess an organizational intervention consisting of psychological first aid (PFA) and Open Space Technology (OST), and its impact on…