...Mariano Del Pópolo Purpose This article examines the militarization of disaster response in the Americas, focusing on the alliance between the USA and Chile (2010–2020). It analyzes how the USA promoted this agenda through the “New Threats” security doctrine in regional forums, with Chile playing...

... contributes to the ongoing discussions around the reproduction of vulnerability and the importance of understanding its root causes of disaster scholarship, practice and activism. Homelessness Incarceration Criminalization Vulnerability Precarity USA Ksenia Chmutina  (co-host; from...

...Ronald W. Perry In the USA, terrorist threats captured government attention following 11 September 2001. Cities remain the most likely setting for terrorist incidents. Many cities, building on a successful federal program begun in 1997, have developed metropolitan medical response systems (MMRS...

... as man‐made disasters. This article assesses the HMIS environment and identifies the state of practice by HMOs as it pertains to HMIS disaster preparedness. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Health service Disaster recovery Disaster planning Health care USA Over the years, the cost of health...

...David Alexander Civil protection, or emergency preparedness as it is known in the USA, has grown in response to the need to protect populations against natural and technological disasters. Over the past two decades it has partially supplanted civil defence, which is primarily concerned...

... of danger to self from landslides, nor in the perceived locations of where landslides may occur. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Disasters Hazards Perception USA Millions of people visit the Western mountains of the USA every year. The vast majority of these visitors do so without ever coming...

... and compelling evidence that further improvements are needed, perhaps in the form of stricter regulations. The seven‐year‐old, with her father and instructor aboard, was attempting to set a new world record as the youngest pilot to fly from coast to coast in the USA. Jessica crashed on take‐off during bad...

...Henry W. Fischer; Charles K. Scharnberger; Charles J. Geiger Argues that, while the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (USA) is found to be a low to moderate risk area in terms of seismic vulnerability, it is vulnerable to future episodes which could be quite threatening to a sizeable population. Degree...

..., USA, after a major fire emergency threatened residents of three neighbourhoods contiguous to the site. Several variables appear to increase the likelihood of a warning being taken seriously and acted on appropriately. These variables include the clarity of the warning message, i.e...

... in a pure form. Thus, the types we advance are not intended to be exact descriptions of social reality but as ways of thinking about such realities. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Contingency planning Crisis management Disaster management Disasters Housing Terminology USA...

.... © Company 1995 Conflict Crisis management Disaster management Disasters USA War deployment of guards and civilian police monitors; deployment of military observers; preventive deployment of military forces; deployment of peace‐keeping troops on a consensual basis...

...Henry W. Fischer; Eric M. Drain The local emergency management directors (n=54) from a midwestern state (USA) were surveyed to determine how accurately they understood behavioural response to disaster, which disaster myths they most often believed, and if education, disaster experience...

...H.H. Evans The Federal Emergency Management Agency was established in order to provide a single focus for emergency management in the USA and is charged with providing a programme for hazard mitigation, preparedness planning, relief operations and recovery assistance. Federal law requires that each...