Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 26 Issue 5

Regulating disasters? The role of international law in disaster prevention and management

Marie Aronsson-Storrier, Karen da Costa

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of international law in disaster prevention and management, with a particular focus on the emerging field of international…

Sanitation, human rights and disaster management

Marie Aronsson-Storrier

The purpose of this paper is to link debates around the international law on human rights and disaster management with the evolving debate around the human right to sanitation, in…

Disasters and non-state actors – human rights-based approaches

Marlies Hesselman, Lottie Lane

The purpose of this paper is to examine the roles and responsibilities of non-state actors (NSAs) in contributing to disaster governance from an international human rights law…

Corporate accountability in the Samarco chemical sludge disaster

Karen da Costa

The purpose of this paper is to explore avenues of corporate accountability in disasters, using the Samarco chemical sludge disaster, which took place in 2015 in Brazil, as case…

International law applicable to urban conflict and disaster

Ronan McDermott, Charlotte Luelf, Laura Hofmann, Pat Gibbons

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the international legal framework governing urban crises arising from conflict, “natural” and technological…

Examining livelihood risk perceptions in disaster resettlement

Xuesong Guo, Naim Kapucu

Although many disaster resettlement programs are implemented throughout the world, their ramifications continue to challenge our understanding of scope, impact, context, and…

“What should we do?” The after-action review of village heads’ information seeking and decision making during the unprecedented Kaohsiung blast

Chiung-wen Hsu

The purpose of this paper is to examine village heads’ information seeking and decision making in 2014 Kaohsiung Blast and to analyze if the current disaster trainings help those…

Resilience after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Stacy Buckingham-Howes, Poorna Sreekumar, Glenn Morris, Lynn M. Grattan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which self-reported resilience was associated with mental health outcomes four years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill…

Longitudinal patterns of unmet needs during Texas floods, May-June 2015: 2-1-1 disaster-related calls for housing, utilities, food, and medical care

Teresa Wai Chi Tai, Jee Young Lee, Sherry I. Bame

In Spring 2015, Texas experienced record-breaking floods, causing deaths, injuries, and widespread property and infrastructure damage. However, little is known about those who…