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Tracking the evolution of the disaster management cycle: a general system theory approach
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)
Officials and scholars have used the disaster management cycle for the past 30 years to explain and manage impacts. Although very little understanding and agreement exist in terms of where the concept originated it is the ...
Investigating the significance of disaster information management
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
Disaster information informs disaster risk management interventions. However, it is the systematic management of this key resource that has not yet been fully embraced. In some cases, information is still haphazardly ...
A revision of communication strategies for effective disaster risk reduction: A case study of the South Durban basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)
The study examined how effective forms of communication are, or could be, impacting themore traditional forms of emergency and disaster management communication throughthe print and electronic media and how an integrated ...
A framework for rapid impact assessment woth special reference to wildfires
(OASIS, 2013)
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology is a powerful tool that can support
decision-making in all the facets of disaster risk management. Being at the centre of all disaster
risk management functions, GIS ...
Disaster risk management: disciplinary status and prospects for a unifying theory
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the disciplinary status of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) as an emerging, applied, social science and to consider prospects for the establishment of a unifying theory or philosophical ...
Knowledge apartheid in disaster risk management discourse: Is marrying indigenous and scientific knowledge the missing link?
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)
Indigenous knowledge (IK) is a key component of disaster risk management (DRM) and development planning, yet it is often overlooked, with practitioners preferring to use scientific knowledge. Critics of IK have termed it ...
Modelling social vulnerability in sub-Saharan West Africa using a geographical information system
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)
In recent times, disasters and risk management have gained significant attention, especially with increasing awareness of the risks and increasing impact of natural and other hazards especially in the developing world. ...