...Peter Royston Mulvihill Purpose Environmental disasters are preventable, but this remains a complicated and elusive prospect. This article discusses factors that combine to limit and undermine environmental disaster prevention efforts and explores directions for improved theory and practice...

... 11 2023 05 11 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Disaster risk reduction Japan Nepal Philippines Prevention Vietnam One tenet of disaster prevention and management is that disasters are not natural, because...

... countries. In Larissa in central Greece on 3 March, an earthquake with moment magnitude 6.3 at 8 kilometres depth (USGS, 2021c) destroyed roads and damaged infrastructure, most notably a school and a bridge (France24, 2021). Teachers safely evacuated the children from the school, likely preventing...