... the sources, vulnerabilities, approaches, modes, methods and modes for related decision-making scenarios, particularly in the political realm. Research limitations/implications The world is not so simply divided at every turn and dichotomous thinking may harbor biases, mask ignorance and/or offend...

...Chiung-wen Hsu Purpose 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 leaders to enhance disaster risk deduction in an unprecedented disaster. Design/methodology...

...Miao Liu; Eric Scheepbouwer; Sonia Giovinazzi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesise critical success factors (CSFs) for advancing post-disaster infrastructure recovery and underpinning recovery authorities in decision making when facing future disasters. Design/methodology/approach...

... on managing the water level, flood defense refers to flood protection structures, and emergency response encompasses ways of mitigating damages and harm of the affected population by evacuation and rescue. In this context, decision making can be divided into three levels: long-term strategic, medium-term...

... transportation system, like a major accident or a terrorist attack. In a first step, we ask for the general demands put on emergency staff using the theoretical perspective of human factors combined with the psychology of complex problem solving and natural decision making. We then describe a research...

...Naim Kapucu; Tolga Arslan; Fatih Demiroz Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze scholarly discussions and findings regarding collaborative emergency management (CEM). Several aspects such as leadership, decision making, intergovernmental and interorganizational relations, technology...

... Decision making Cities Leaders Storms On the January 8, 2005, the southern part of Sweden was hit by a severe storm with local hurricanes. Given the name Gudrun, this storm was the worst in 100 years. During a few hours, 22 million m² of timber fell, about 18 percent of the total wood...

.... Originality/value The findings presented reveal how stakeholders should be better involved, and what issues they need to address, regarding the integration of built‐in resilience into construction decision making. Lee Bosher can be contacted at: l.bosher@lboro.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

... the municipality administration were also interviewed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Leadership Decision making Stress Disasters The rescue service has a reputation of handling smaller events, such as car fires and limited apartment fires adequately, but perform less well in large...

... at the highest level of government organization. Terrorism Disasters Behaviour Decision making United States of America Those who systematically study terrorism from a social and political science perspective, note that the first goal of terrorists is to instill fear in their victims. Why? In order...

... down qualitative data obtained from disaster workers from multiple organizations and countries. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Authority Knowledge Decision making Training Disasters What makes coordination in international disaster relief work difficult, and why does new technology...

...Douglas Paton; Duncan Jackson Fundamental to disaster readiness planning is developing training strategies to compensate for the limited opportunities available for acquiring actual disaster response experience. With regard to communication, decision making and integrated emergency management...

...John Cosgrave Proposes that decision making is part of all management tasks and that it is particularly important for emergency managers as they often need to take decisions quickly on very inadequate information. Briefly reviews some of the particular problems of emergency decision. Looks...

..., the reasons for the public’s decisions are usually implicit, that is, they have to be deduced from their actions, but nevertheless they show a pattern. Tries to give each side a better understanding of the other’s point of view. Decision making Risk Risk management ‐‐‐‐’s great strength was that he...

..., or the decision to let it burn. It has been asked for natural disasters as well: in forest fires day as opposed to night fighting techniques, or containment versus laissez‐faire. These are all cases where the adviser role of the scientist can come quite close to the decision‐making role itself[ 6...

... a contribution towards reducing the scope of the conflict and provide much‐needed assistance to people who otherwise would be forced to leave their homes in search of relief and public welfare. Attempts to define spot reconstruction and outlines the key elements, prerequisites and guidelines for decision making...