International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Review Articles
The latest review articles published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Maciej Mikulsen | Alan P. Diduck
The paper begins with a description of Canadian food safety institutions and follows with an overview of basic models of governance. A leading food safety governance model, emphasizing risk communication...
John McAneney | Delphine McAneney | Rade Musulin | George Walker | Ryan Crompton
In the light of the rising cost of natural disasters we review the provision of catastrophe insurance by the public sector in the US, France, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom, and its absence...
Samanthi W. Durage | S.C. Wirasinghe | J.Y. Ruwanpura | Lina Kattan | Shawn Marshall
Tornado hazards are destructive forms of extreme weather phenomena associated with severe thunderstorms, which threaten life and property. Proper mitigation actions in the pre-touchdown phase of a tornado...
Workplace safety compliance of RMG industry in Bangladesh: Structural assessment of RMG factory buildings
Mehedi Ahmed Ansary | Uttama Barua
Ready-made garment (RMG) in Bangladesh faces challenges to ensure workplace safety for the millions of garment workers in compliance with the national and international labour standards and labour rights....
Jennifer Tatebe | Carol Mutch
This article presents a synthesis of education focused disaster risk reduction (DRR) literature. Our aim was to understand the landscape of DRR with a focus on education, schools, children and young...
A review of informal volunteerism in emergencies and disasters: Definition, opportunities and challenges
Joshua Whittaker | Blythe McLennan | John Handmer
Despite highly specialised and capable emergency management systems, ordinary citizens are usually first on the scene in an emergency or disaster, and remain long after official services have ceased....
Towards disaster resilience: A scenario-based approach to co-producing and integrating hazard and risk knowledge
Tim Davies | Sarah Beaven | David Conradson | Alex Densmore | JC Gaillard | David Johnston | Dave Milledge | Katie Oven | Dave Petley | Jonathan Rigg | Tom Robinson | Nick Rosser | Tom Wilson
Quantitative risk assessment and risk management processes are critically examined in the context of their applicability to the statistically infrequent and sometimes unforeseen events that trigger...
A temporal framework of social resilience indicators of communities to flood, case studies: Wagga wagga and Kempsey, NSW, Australia
Sanaz Khalili | Michael Harre | Philip Morley
There is considerable research interest in the meaning and measurement of resilience to hazards and disasters. However, there are no studies to our knowledge that have made a unified framework of social...
Timothy Neale | Jessica K. Weir
Natural hazards are complex events whose mitigation has generated a diverse field of specialised natural science expertise that is drawn upon by a wide range of practitioners and decision-makers. In...
Towards people-centred approaches for effective disaster risk management: Balancing rhetoric with reality
Anna Scolobig | Tim Prior | Dagmar Schröter | Jonas Jörin | Anthony Patt
Over the past two decades, decision-making in disaster risk management (DRM) has evolved significantly. This has resulted in a re-focus from a predominantly top-down, ‘command and control’ style of...
Space-based response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: Lessons learnt from JAXA's support using earth observation satellites
Kazuya Kaku | Noriko Aso | Futoshi Takiguchi
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan and the fourth largest on world record since 1900, occurred in the Pacific Ocean near the Tohoku region at 14:46 JST (GMT+9) on 11 March...
Rawshan Ara Begum | Md. Sujahangir Kabir Sarkar | Abdul Hamid Jaafar | Joy Jacqueline Pereira
The priorities of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) agendas both include reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience. Thus, it is crucial to link DRR and CCA to benefit...
The development of an initial framework for multi-firm industrial safety management based on cooperative relationship: A Malaysia case study
Azizan Ramli | Mazlin Mokhtar | Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz
The failure of the human system to prevent the occurrence of industrial accidents may lead to increment of cumulative occupational and disastrous accidents. Even some of the firms own safety management...
Finn Løvholt | Neysa J. Setiadi | Joern Birkmann | Carl B. Harbitz | Claudia Bach | Nishara Fernando | G. Kaiser | Farrokh Nadim
With over 220,000 fatalities, the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the deadliest natural hazard events ever, and represents a landmark in disaster risk reduction governance in several...
Digital elevation based flood hazard and vulnerability study at various return periods in Sirajganj Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh
Sadequr Rahman Bhuiyan | Abdullah Al Baky
The objectives of the study are flood hazard mapping and crops and settlement vulnerability assessment in a low laying riverine flood prone area of Bangladesh for different flood magnitudes. Flood hazard...
Gloria M. Gutman | Yongjie Yon
A systematic review of literature and of information from key organizations was conducted to provide an overview of what is known about elder mistreatment in disaster situations, identify research gaps...
Cheryl Chui | Joyce Y Feng | Lucy Jordan
Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) first developed by Sabatier and Jenkins (1987, 1988) as a conceptual lens, this paper explores its usefulness in understanding policy changes in the context...
Victoria A. Johnson | Kevin R. Ronan | David M. Johnston | Robin Peace
The purpose of this methodological literature review was to investigate how scholars and practitioners currently measure and judge the effectiveness of disaster education programs for children through...
Azizan Ramli | Mazlin Mokhtar | Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz
Economic development is accompanied by the use of an increasingly complex technology, especially in the process of industrialization. The technological threats will cause an unpredictable event such...
The 2011 flood in Minot (North Dakota, USA) and the role of faith-based and nonprofit groups in hazard event response and recovery
Christopher L. Atkinson
The specific impact of community-based and faith-based groups on disaster response and recovery is a relatively recent complement to existing work on the role of these groups in public circles. It is...
Deluge, disaster and development in Uttarakhand Himalayan region of India: Challenges and lessons for disaster management
Chandra Prakash Kala
The Himalaya has been venerated by communities since antiquity and hence visited by a large number of pilgrims for paying tribute, annually. Uttarakhand state in the Indian Himalaya being the place...
Subhamoy Bhattacharya | Sanket Nayak | Sekhar Chandra Dutta
Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings are common throughout Latin America, the Himalayan region, Eastern Europe, Indian subcontinent and other parts of Asia. It has been observed that these buildings...
The role of social capital and public policy in disaster recovery: A case study of Tamil Nadu State, India
Abhay Joshi | Misa Aoki
The objective of this research is to determine what important roles are played by social capital in the implementation of recovery policies for areas affected by disasters. We will compare two districts...
Kazuya Kaku | Alexander Held
The Sentinel Asia initiative was established in 2005, as a collaboration between regional space agencies and disaster management agencies, applying remote sensing and Web-GIS technologies to assist...
Human stampedes during religious festivals: A comparative review of mass gathering emergencies in India
Faisel T. Illiyas | Shibu K. Mani | A.P. Pradeepkumar | Keshav Mohan
Human stampedes have been identified as a major hazard that could occur during mass gathering events in India, as well as anywhere in the world where people crowd together. This study compiles and analyses...
Troy Sternberg | B. Batbuyan
The Hyogo Framework for Action stresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) at local, national and international levels and provides guidance to risk-prone countries. The framework aims to strengthen adaptive...
L. Le De | J.C. Gaillard | W. Friesen
Over the last few decades remittances sent to the least wealthy countries have been considerably augmented. In most Small Island Developing States (SIDS), remittances are important in sustaining people's...
Multi-scale seismic hazard and risk in the China mainland with implication for the preparedness, mitigation, and management of earthquake disasters: An overview
Zhongliang Wu | Tengfei Ma | Hui Jiang | Changsheng Jiang
Earthquake hazard and risk in the China mainland exhibit multi-scale characteristics. Facing the complex challenge, several research and application projects have been undertaken since recent years....
Disaster risks and disaster management policies and practices in Pakistan: A critical analysis of Disaster Management Act 2010 of Pakistan
Human suffering has multiplied in recent years due to increased frequency and intensity of natural hazards, which are expected to rise in the coming years due to climate change. Admittedly, risks to...
Sidney Coupet | Reza Nassiri | Oluseyi Aliu | Christopher Coppola
Doctors United For Haiti (DUFH) is an organization that brings healthcare volunteers to Haiti with the aim of sharing knowledge, skills and building relationships that develop a network of capable local...
J. Richard Eiser | Ann Bostrom | Ian Burton | David M. Johnston | John McClure | Douglas Paton | Joop van der Pligt | Mathew P. White
Understanding how people interpret risks and choose actions based on their interpretations is vital to any strategy for disaster reduction. We review relevant literature with the aim of developing a...