... in the communities that favour or facilitate their effects (Briguglio, 2003). 15 04 2020 17 04 2020 26 04 2020 26 04 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Local governance Risk assessment Climate change adaptation Risk...

... 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Tsunami Risk management Risk assessment Fire Risk perception Risk and vulnerability In as succinct a way as may be useful, this paper describes how risk, as exposure to the chance...

.../licences/by/4.0/legalcode Risk Earthquake Risk assessment First responders Post-traumatic stress disorder The setting for the study was the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes experienced in Christchurch, New Zealand. The former caused damage but no loss of life, the latter...

.... The suggested model can become helpful in reducing fire hazard in Pakistan. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Pakistan Fire Risk assessment Fire hazard Vulnerability Damage Life loss Capacity Figure 2 illustrates distribution of fire incidents dealt by the fire stations...

... Disaster preparedness Elementary schools High schools East Anatolia Fault Zone Natural disasters Risk assessment Risk management Turkey Disasters are unusual events that bring about economic and social loss and affect human activities by stopping or interrupting the supply of resources...

... not participated in hazard education programmes. Youth Risk assessment Strategic planning Hazards Students were knowledgeable of most protective behaviours. Of the vital behaviours, two students selected no correct behaviours and 13 selected all ten. Table II reports the descriptive statistics...

... effectively as well. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Case studies Earthquakes Philippines Risk assessment Poverty The Philippines is located in a region within the Pacific Ring of fire, a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Metro Manila [1] , the capital...

... 2007 Disasters Terrorism Hazard prevention in buildings Risk assessment From a homeland security standpoint, typically office, storage, and manufacturing buildings are not the subject of a man‐made disaster, such as a terrorist attack. Such attacks would typically limited to critical...

... and other supporting weather data. Biswajeet Pradhan can be contacted at: biswajeet@mailcity.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Malaysia Forests Fire Geographic information systems Risk assessment Resource allocation Fire has been identified as one of the major threats...

.... Emergency measures Disasters Risk assessment Learning Culture In addition, issues on blame, secrecy, decision‐making and authority, communication, isomorphic learning, and training involved in the respective cultural context, may prevent a(n) holistic approach to emergency management (Hood...

...Mohammad A. Hassanain Purpose The objectives of this paper are to present an assessment for the consideration of fire safety during the design stages of school facilities in Saudi Arabia; and to present the development of a fire risk assessment survey tool whereby existing school facilities can...

... and environmental damage. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Organizational planning Risk assessment Risk management Contingency planning Employee involvement Decision theory An industrial systems degree of vulnerability is in large respect dependent on social factors working before...

... the results of the pilot test of the risk assessment and mitigation phases of the integrated approach at a water and sanitation District in the western USA. Third, the key learning points and implications of the integrated approach are discussed. Many countries, such as the USA, have recently taken...

... quickly and smoothly. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Chemical hazards Risk assessment Geographic information systems Chlorine gas is one of the most prevalent extremely hazardous substances. Chlorine gas is primarily used as a disinfectant in swimming‐pools, drinking water...

... can be converted to income. Floods Hazards Risk assessment Risk management “Vulnerability” is only one of a number of concepts associated with hazard management where common understanding tends to break down as soon as we seek to define exactly what we mean by the concept in question...

... Natural (hurricane, tornado, volcano, tidal wave, flood). Technological (nuclear accidents, chemical emergencies). Civil (terrorism, riots, famine, act of war). Biological (bacteria, viruses, toxin). Disasters Risk assessment Public education Local government In Emergency...

...=The overall heat transfer coefficient of the ground (kJ/m²hK) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Risk assessment Liquid flow Spillovers Air pollution Evaporation Volatile substance misuse Q_sol=The net solar radiation (kJ/m²h...