... and improved disaster preparedness. These studies remind us that sustainable empowerment frequently begins at the community level, not by others but by the community itself. Institutional change was also identified as a key requirement. Research findings advocated for the mainstreaming of gender...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence maybe seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. Prepositioning Value-focused thinking Decision-making Emergency management Humanitarian logistics Disaster preparedness The frequency of disasters has increased...

...Juan Camilo López-Vargas; José D. Meisel; Diana María Cárdenas-Aguirre; Pablo Medina Purpose The study aims to present an agent-based simulation model (ABM) for exploring interorganizational coordination scenarios in local disaster preparedness. This approach includes local actors and logistical...

...James Rayawan; Vinit S. Tipnis; Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez Purpose The authors investigate the role of community engagement in the connection between disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness. Using a vulnerability-to-hazard framework built by the European Union, the authors study the case...