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Displaying 2 of about 2 resultsThis volume presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from Australia, Europe, North America and developing countries. By comparing the impacts, it seeks to identify what moves people to adapt, which adaptive activities succeed and which fail, and the underlying reasons, and the factors that determine when adaptation is required and when simply…
This article summarises diagrams which are used to discuss the key elements of disaster risk management (DRM). These include the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC), and the Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) diagram. The DRMC outlines the key initiatives carried out both in the Emergency Response and the Recovery Stages of a disaster; the effect…