Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 33 Issue 6

The distribution of Cyclone Idai’s water impacts in Beira, Mozambique

Cameron McCordic, Ines Raimundo, Matthew Judyn, Duncan Willis

Climate hazards in the form of cyclones are projected to become more intense under the pressures of future climate change. These changes represent a growing hazard to low lying…

Organisational vulnerability: exploring the pathways

Paul Chipangura, Dewald van Niekerk, Fortune Mangara, Annegrace Zembe

This study aimed to address the underexplored domain of organisational vulnerability, with a specific focus on understanding how vulnerability is understood in organisations and…

Punishment and survival – incarcerated persons' experiences with extreme heat in Texas prisons

Carlee Purdum, Benika Dixon, Amite Dominick

The impact of extreme heat on prisons and carceral facilities is becoming increasingly visible, yet remains overlooked by scholars, practitioners and policymakers. Prisons are a…

The relativity of perspective: exploring the disconnect between Indigenous and Western paradigms of disaster risk perception

Tsitsi Trina Magadza, Christo Coetzee, Leandri Kruger

This article demonstrates how psycho-sociological concepts have a place in disaster risk sciences. It draws attention to the relationship between risk perception and disaster…

Daily vulnerability and disaster resilience: a case study of preferred community assets and social capital for Latinx coastal residents

Joshua Blockstein, Jenna H. Tilt, Beatriz Botello Salgado

This study explores how marginalized populations in high-hazard-risk areas on the Oregon coast utilize valued locations and social networks to adapt to daily challenges and…

A framework to integrate indigenous knowledge into disaster risk reduction to build disaster resilience: insights from rural South Africa

Masego Mirriam Motsumi, Livhuwani David Nemakonde

For millennia, indigenous or local knowledge (IK) has empowered rural communities particularly the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups to prepare for, cope with and survive…