The field of climate change is full of uncertainties that are limiting strategic disaster risk
reduction planning. In this paper, however, we argued that there is lot to do before we get …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of gender mainstreaming
into disaster reduction decision making as a way of reducing disaster vulnerabilities of …

The past decade has seen the rapid proliferation of theory, literature, and research, in the
field of tourism disaster and crisis management, however very few empirical studies of …

Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people.
Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of …

Community resilience is the ability of people exposed to disasters, crises and underlying
vulnerabilities, to anticipate, to prepare for, to reduce the impact of, to cope with and to …

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 …

In investigating ways to reduce community vulnerability to environmental hazards it is
essential to recognize the interaction between indigenous and scientific knowledge bases …

This article discusses a vulnerability approach to disaster research and research on climate
change adaptation. As an integrated approach, it claims to consider social, economic and …

In this study we argue that recognising humanitarian logistics (HL) as a complex system is a
key step in developing supply chain design and management strategies that meet the needs …

How stakeholder attributes might influence the performance of disaster recovery project
remains ambiguous. Stakeholder attributes are socially constructed variables and have …