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Disasters

Year: 2019
Articles in SafetyLit: 40

A disorder of the humanitarian sector: the new v old humanitarianism debate

A scoping review of postdisaster social support investigations conducted after disasters that struck the Australia and Oceania continent

Ambivalence towards discourse of disaster resilience

Assessing community vulnerability to floods and hurricanes along the U.S. Gulf Coast

Building disaster resilience with social messaging networks: WeChat community in Houston during Hurricane Harvey

Building safety in humanitarian programmes that support post-disaster shelter self-recovery: an evidence review

Capital assets framework for analyzing household vulnerability during disaster

Community resilience and urban planning in tsunami prone settlements: the case of Mehuin, Queule, Toltén and Puerto Saavedra, Chile

Disaster risk mitigation, community resilience, and policy effectiveness: the case of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program in the U.S.

Earthquake-strengthening policy for commercial buildings in small-town New Zealand

Educational hazards? The politics of disaster risk education in Rio de Janeiro

Educational, psychosocial and protection outcomes of child- and youth-focused programming with Somali refugees in Buramino Camp, Dollo Ado, Ethiopia

Fire on the range: rangeland fire protection associations as disaster response organizations

Flooding and the new normal: what is the role of gender in experiences of post-disaster ontological security?

How do you build back better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, post-Hurricane Irma

How structural mitigation shapes risk perception and affects decision making

I will not go, I cannot go: cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

Insuring earthquakes: how would the Californian and Japanese insurance programs have fared after the 2011 New Zealand earthquake?

Listing for change? Exploring the politics of relief lists after 2007 Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh

Livelihoods, precarity, and disaster vulnerability: Nicaragua and Hurricane Mitch

Mapping the public first-aid training landscape: uptake, knowledge, confidence and willingness to deliver first aid in disasters/emergencies- a scoping review

Putting affected people at the centre of humanitarian action: an argument for the principle of Humanitarian Subsidiarity

Reconstruction under siege: the Gaza Strip since 2007

Returning to normalcy in the short-term: a preliminary investigation of the recovery from Hurricane Harvey among individuals with home damage

Social vulnerability and disaster: understanding the perspectives of practitioners

Spatial and temporal patterns and socioeconomic impact of landslides in the tropical and mountainous Colombian Andes

The ethical contours of research in crisis settings: five practical considerations for academic institutional review boards and researchers

The impact of the Gulf crisis on Qatar's humanitarian sector

The internal brain drain: foreign aid, hiring practices, and international migration

The political dynamics of voter retrospection and disaster responses

The role of coalitions in disaster policymaking

The social impact of natural hazards: a multilevel analysis of disasters and forms of trust in Mainland China

There's nowhere to go: counting the costs of extreme weather to the homeless community

Towards a complex model of disaster behaviour

Understanding the interacting factors that influence social vulnerability: a case study of the 2016 central Italy earthquake

Unpacking post-haiyan disaster resettlement narratives of young Filipino women informal settlers in: Tacloban City, Philippines a spatial narrative approach

Using cluster analysis to explore mortality patterns associated with tropical cyclones

Waiting for the flood: technocratic time and impending disaster in the Himalayas

What happened to the second world? Earthquakes and postsocialism in Kazakhstan

Women's experiences across disasters - a study of two towns in Texas