... and organizational insufficiencies can undermine the quality of the decision-making process. Originality/value This study emphasizes important decision factors or processes in the dynamic handling of heavy rainfall at the frontline, which may contribute to risk management, public administration and resilience...

.... Risk management Disaster response Local government Complex adaptive systems theory Disaster preparedness Disaster recovery Disaster governance Continuity planning Resilience [1] is discussed in every corner of society, including among communities, firms, individuals and sectors...

...” is to terminate one’s exposure to aversive stimuli after exposure has begun; to “avoid” is to take action which prevents one’s exposure to the aversive stimuli from ever beginning (Gray, 1971 , pp. 116, 118 and 164). Processes for application of resilience are an extension of risk reduction or risk management...

... to environmental and societal risks is expected to increase in coming decades with encompassing new challenges such as demographic changes and conflicting uses of space, both on land and at sea. Meeting these challenges will require a shift toward an understanding of risk management as a social process, marking...

... Köln and Universität Bonn 2016 173pp. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only --> Resistance Vulnerability Risk management The Atlas of Vulnerability and Resilience (Atlas VR) edited by Alexander Fekete and Gabriele...

.... Relationships and structures have also been suggested as surrogates for planning in the case of recovery. Gao et al. (2013) found that structural, relational and cognitive social capital influenced the sharing of risk management practices and related skills transfer in SMEs, thereby resulting...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Disaster preparedness Risk management Health communication Public health practice Message reach refers to the target audience’s exposure to the message (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Public health organizations can extend...

...Erik Stig Persson; Lars Nyberg; Inge Svedung Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how local early warning systems (EWSs) for floods are established at the municipality level in Sweden. The study also aims to analyse the role of EWSs in a risk management context. The overall purpose...

... people in the aftermath of the disaster. Edited by Ute Luig Negotiating Disasters: Politics, Representation, Meanings Frankfurt Peter Lang 326 pp. 978-3-631-61096-1 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Anthropology Politics Risk management...

... affected hugely by crises and disasters around the world in recent years; including natural hazards and man‐made (Pennington‐Gray et al., 2011). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Risk Crisis Disaster Hotels Culture Jordan Risk management Duncan et al...

... Disasters Disaster risk reduction Risk management Socio‐economic development Infrastructure reconstruction Millennium development goals The infrastructure stock of a country makes a significant contribution to the social and economic aspects of that country when they are formed, operated...

... future changes. It is exemplified here by the need to link disaster risk reduction (DRR) with climate change adaptation (CCA) and flood risk management (FRM). The concept answers to the variety of adopted solutions and build-up of knowledge that exist, as a consequence of far-reaching local liabilities...

...). In reviewing the current state of school disaster prevention education in Taiwan, the following findings have been provided (Hsu, 2007 ; Chen and Lee, 2009): Natural disasters Disaster prevention education Education and school safety Risk identification and assessment Risk management Education...

... model Earthquake loss estimation Earthquakes Natural disasters EQ risk mitigation Risk management Earthquakes cause wide destruction in structures, lifelines, and other facilities for prepared and less prepared communities, regardless of preparedness and mitigation efforts. Therefore...

... Index Forests Fire Risk management Wildland fires are those fires, which burn vegetative cover (Garner, 1989). As fire is a threat to the forest sector economy at a regional or even national level, the last step is the inclusion of fire risk in broad‐scale scenario analysis (Gadow, 2000...

... warming Risk management Disasters Influential guidelines clearly state that capacity assessment can be conducted at various administrative levels (e.g. UNDP, 2008 , p. 14), but most assessments in the context of disaster risk reduction focus only on one administrative level (CADRI, 2011...

... Vulnerability Liabilities Capabilities Risk Risk management Susceptibility Resistance and resilience Environmental management According to David Alexander (2006) , “vulnerability is a greater determinant of disaster than hazards themselves” (p. 2). Research literature on this subject illustrates...

... communication Public health Graduates Risk management Information strategy United States of America The following list summarizes students' qualitative comments about the module. Comments are grouped by question topic and theme. Concepts that students learned from the disaster communication module...

... consequence models Earthquake loss estimation Earthquake risk mitigation Natural disasters Risk analysis Risk management Jordan Earthquakes could have a direct socio‐economic impact, which are crucial for study area development, along with in‐direct ones, which could span over longer timeframe...

... schools East Anatolia Fault Zone Natural disasters Risk assessment Risk management Turkey Turkey is located on the Alp‐Himalayan Fold Belt with 99 percent of the population, 96 percent of industrial areas, and 75 percent of the power stations in Turkey situated in places accepted...