...Ihab Hanna Sawalha Purpose This study aims at investigating the evolution of disaster management by identifying the different phases it has gone through over time, and laying a ground for the next generation of disaster studies that focus on value-creating and value-adding activities. Design...

...Hamid Jafari; Ahmad Jonidi Jafari; Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam; Salime Goharinezhad Purpose In recent years, futures study methods, especially scenario analysis, are used to plan for disaster and emergency management. Scenario method is suitable for public level policy making. Scenarios generated...