Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Since the first edition of The Human Side of Disaster was published in 2009, new
catastrophes have plagued the globe, including earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand …

We investigate emergency managers' perceptions of information overload from digital
sources and examine the relationship of information overload to stress, analytical and …

In this chapter we introduce disasters and disaster vulnerability theory. The characteristics,
distribution, and effects from disasters are discussed to establish a context and to justify our …

This article examines the contested area of the responsibility for destinations and tourists,
within emergency settings. It incorporates a Delphi-Scenario technique to facilitate a …

Across policy domains, government agencies evaluate social media content produced by
third parties, identify valuable information, and at times reuse information to inform the …

With an eye to health equity and community engagement in the context of the initial COVID-
19 vaccine roll-out, the COVID-19-related concerns of the Latinx (Hispanic/Latino) …

The promulgation of the South African Disaster Management Act No. 57 of 2002 and the
National Disaster Management Policy Framework of 2005 placed South Africa at the …

The politics of crisis terminology is rarely examined directly. Crisis is an “umbrella,” under
which resides a multitude of terms such as accidents, emergencies, fiascos, disasters, and …

This paper argues that the understanding of causes and effects of hazards and shocks could
be furthered by making more explicit and systematic use of the historical record, that is, by …