...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...

... © 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 they are caused by long-term...

... Preparedness Prevention The notion that a disaster cannot happen without people being affected is often traced back to Rousseau (1756) . That is, environmental events, processes and phenomena (often termed “hazards”) exist, yet within many definitions, a disaster occurs only when adverse impacts...