... the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory to explore how resource loss can trigger psychological distress during environmental disasters; however, it has not been applied in Vanuatu, the most at-risk nation globally to natural hazards. This paper builds on existing studies by exploring personal accounts...

.../licenses/by/3.0/legalcode . 2016 Nepal Natural hazard Disasters Earthquake Risk mitigation Mitigation strategies Risk communications Natural disasters occurring between 1994 and 2013 have affected 218 million people worldwide, and claimed 1.35 million lives (Center for Research...

... Flooding Natural hazard Message design Two separate samples of data were collected from the population of Oklahoma, an area of the country known for its climate variability and vulnerability to catastrophic flooding. In exchange for course credit, participants (n=425, mean age=20.04...

... Hernández can be contacted at: maria.hernandez@ua.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Disasters Floods Natural hazard Spain Adaptive capacity Emergency response Manmade disaster Exposure Floods remain the single natural hazards causing the largest economic and social...

... of a disaster. Marion L. Mitchell can be contacted at: marion.mitchell@griffith.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Disasters Natural hazard Nursing Intensive care Emergency response Manmade disaster Critical care nursing The number of reported disasters has increased...

... review provides important insights into the psychosocial impacts of flooding by examining research from similar areas to New Zealand. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Aftercare Disasters Emergency response Psychological Natural hazard Psychosocial In response to flooding...

.... As a result of the passenger decline, airline companies, airports and tour operators suffered heavy economic losses. Leadership Government Emergency response Crisis management Natural hazard Informant: In most cases it is tacitly understood. Someone told me when I began in the Government...

... and trustworthiness. H2. Respondents would rate themselves higher than the other stakeholder groups for protection responsibility. Dr Emma Apatu can be contacted at: emma.apatu@unf.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Emergency response Natural hazard Tsunami Pacific...

... among survivors. Originality/value – The study contributes to the dearth of knowledge on the use of PFA when used in a group, collective, and developing country setting. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Philippines Aftercare Disasters Emergency response Natural hazard...

... practices that could develop due to their intimate connection with their natural surroundings and that make them resilient to climate-related natural hazards and disasters. The argument is that this knowledge has been unduly neglected in formal disaster management policies due not only to the predominance...

...Dr Roanne van Voorst, Dr Ben Wisner, Dr Jörgen Hellman and Dr Gerben Nooteboom; Roanne van Voorst Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce an analytical framework to define and interpret heterogenous risk behaviour within communities facing natural hazard. By employing a combination...

... response Human-induced disaster Natural hazard However, there is still little doubt about where authority resides in Libis: the founding president and driving force of Buklod Tao is Manuel Abinales, more usually called Ka Noli. Ka Noli was a local parish BEC tagadiwa (facilitator...

... on the daily life of people living close to overflowing sewers, canals, rivers and sea side. With regular intervals severe floods inundates the whole city causing tremendous material and humanitarian losses. Public debate and local publications on natural hazards usually start out by establishing that Jakarta...

.... This knowledge can be of help to others who investigate the possibilities of investing in EWSs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Natural hazard Risk management Early warning system Flood warning Local Spin-off Since the United Nations’ International Decade for Natural Disaster...

... Group Publishing Limited 2015 This paper explores current actions the government implements to manage disaster risk to natural hazards in Mexico. A recent OECD (2013) review of the Mexican National Civil Protection System points out the need to change their approach to outweigh risk prevention...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Aftercare Disasters Emergency response Natural hazard Disaster logistics Caribbean SIDS Regional logistics framework Each year the small island developing states (SIDs) as well as those on continental land masses around the Caribbean Sea endure...

... their frequency will not change significantly (Martinez Austria, 2007). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Climate change Disasters Mexico Manmade Disaster Natural hazard Hydrometeorological hazards This paper examines some of the potential effects of climate change such as floods...

... dangerous external impact, such as a natural hazard. Unfortunately all of them suffer from methodological weaknesses making them unusable for disaster analysis, as they: measure only the objective side of human security while ignoring security as a social construction and the human being as the main...

... in a network (Krackhardt, 1990). So, the concept of cognitive accuracy was applied and extended to deepen analysis in the area (Choi and Brower, 2006 ; Choi and Kim, 2007). Aftercare Disasters Emergency response Natural hazard Cognitive accuracy Network performance Emergency plan...

... for a possible earthquake has not been researched sufficiently. Disaster prevention Earthquake preparedness Natural hazard Preparedness Risk reduction Safety measures Earthquakes are among the most dangerous geologic phenomena on our planet. There are many thousands of earthquakes every year...