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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Volume 16

Issue One I Issue Two I Issue Three I Issue Four

Issue One

Autumn 2001

In this issue:

Flood Insurance, is there a problem? Is there a solution? - a review of the workshop held at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU on 7-9 Feb 2001 by Philip Buckle and Rob Fleming

Community: the concept of community in the risk and emergency management context by Graham Marsh and Philip Buckle

Evacuation of a passenger ship - is panic a major factor? by Peter Ockerby

Government policy on public health, food safety and environmental issues - lessons from BSE in Europe (emergency management, mad cows, anxious politicians, science and the media!) by Terry Nicholls

Assessing the legal liabilities of emergencies by Nicholas Kanarev

Catastrophe management: coping with totally unexpected extreme disasters by Allan Skertchly and Kristen Skertchly

Dam safety risk treatments by Steve Warren

Managing biological emergencies: a new approach by Grant Rawlin and Roger Jones

Responding to hazard effects: promoting resilience and adjustment adoption by Douglas Paton, David Johnston, Leigh Smith and Marian Millar

Impact of Internet media in risk debates: the controversies over the Cassini - Huygens mission and the Anaheim Hills, California, landslide by Christine M. Rodrigue

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Issue Two

Winter 2001

In this issue:

The case for emergency management as a profession by David T. Crews

Tertiary emergency management education in Australia by Ian D. Manock

The application of risk management principles to municipal emergency management practice by Ken Durham, Michael Cawood and Roger Jones

A culturally sensitive approach to risk - 'Natural' hazard perception in Egypt and the UK by Jacqueline Homan

Aircraft accident emergency planning and emergency management by Lindsay Naylor

Emergency exercise and training techniques by Sarah Renner

MIR emergency management: National arrangements for managing public safety aspects of the re-entry of the Russian Mir Space Station by Mark Sullivan and Rod McKinnon

Economic costs of natural disasters in Australia by Neil Gentle, Sharyn Kierce and Alistair Nitz

Capitalism and the shifting spatial and social distribution of hazard and vulnerability by Ben Wisner

Covering disaster: a pilot study into secondary trauma for print media journalists reporting on disaster by Cait McMahon

The role of the New Zealand Earthquake Commission by David Middleton

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Issue Three

Spring 2001

In this issue:

Volunteering in Emergency Services: the South Australian perspective by Adaire Summers

Missed opportunities: NGO's and the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction by John Twigg and Diane Steiner

Conflict over causation of catastrophe by A. J. W. Taylor

Foot and Mouth in Britain: the first 60 days - a problem with dystopia? by Jan P. Rockett

Mapping for emergency situations: the Canadian experience by Kian Fadaie

Managing natural hazards in the Hawke's Bay, New Zealand by Lisa Pearse, David Johnston and Julie Becker

Doing it by the book: a paradox in disaster management by Marilyn Palmer

Involving citizens in hazard mitigation planning: making the right choices by Raymond J. Burby

Measuring community awareness and preparedness for emergencies by Jessica Enders

Severe Local Wind Storms and their effect on residential Mosman Park by Mal Cronstedt

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Issue Four

Summer 2001/02

In this issue:

Thredbo disaster Coroner's Inquest by Allan Skertchly and Kristen Skertchly

Managing community vulnerability in a wide area disaster by Phillip Buckle

Wildfire risk management by Denis O'Bryan

Are disaster management concepts relevant in developing countries? The case of the 1999-2000 Mozambican floods by Beau Martin, Mike Capra, George van der Heide, Melissa Stoneham and Marcelino Lucas

Development for disaster reduction - the role of the World Bank by Margaret Arnold and Piers Merrick

The Lassing Mine disaster - a retrospective by Felix Blatt

A new emergency management for the new millennium? by Neil R Britton

The operational debrief process by John Lunn

Working with the community in emergency risk management by Mark Scillio

Hazard and risk management: guidelines for local authorities by Sharlene Pardy and Michele Daly


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