Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 5 Issue 5
Strapline:
An International JournalTable of contents
Local mass media operations in disasters in the USA
E.L. QuarantelliSummarizes, under 12 general propositions, the findings from a series of field studies by the Disaster Research Center about the operations of the local mass media in disasters in…
Training disaster workers: promoting wellbeing and operational effectiveness
Douglas PatonDescribes the use of schema theory to conceptualize how disaster experience can undermine well‐being and operational performance and discusses how this approach provides a basis…
Risk management and disasters
A.Z. Keller, A.F. Al‐MadhariPresents a method of analysis to obtain risk profiles for major adverse events. The method is based on a previously published method for probabilistically modelling historical…
The role of the police in the total management of disaster
Lars NylénPresents a Swedish police chief’s analysis of the operational command concept, defining different tactical situations and ways to improve command functions. Police activities…
Experiences gained from the First Internet Disaster Conference
A.Z. Keller, E.L. Coles, R. HealDiscusses the background of the First Internet Disaster Conference. Debates the advantages and disadvantages of Internet conferencing, and covers the lessons learnt and…
ISSN:
0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju