AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Volume 15
Issue One I Issue Two I Issue Three I Issue Four
Autumn 2000
In this issue:
The Port Arthur anniversary services: post-disaster rituals and symbols by Sydney Smale
Research development in the field of emergency management by Paul Arbon & Colleen Smith
How high was the storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Mahina? North Queensland, 1899 by Jonathan Nott & Matthew Hayne
Critical assessment of information on bushfire preparedness for residents by Bernd Rohrmann
An information infrastructure for disaster management in Pacific island countries by Ken Granger
Flood warning and awareness at Blandswood Peel Forest, South Canterbury, New Zealand by Peter Kingsbury
The Kosova experience - in the Department of Human Services, South Australia by Jill Coombe
Operation Safe Haven-disaster recovery management with the Kosovar refugees at Leeuwin Barracks, Western Australia by R Bayman, G Burton, D D'Cruz, F Gebhard, J Humphries, J Kenny, K King, J Matijas-Kekez, C Mavor, G Searle, E Talikowski, D Vicary & M Wettinger
Katherine 1998: Appeals and self sufficiency - lessons for the future by Bill Wilson
Human aspects of the Katherine-Daly flood disaster by Allan Skertchly & Kristen Skertchly
Making government assistance responsive to community need: Namoi Floods, NSW, 1998 by Maureen Chapman
Sustainability or invulnerable development? Proposals for the current shift in paradigms by David A. McEntire
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Winter 2000
In this issue:
Post-Disaster reconstruction and economic development: a methodology for the utilization of public information data by Ino Rossi
New approaches to assessing vulnerability and resilience by Philip Buckle, Graham Marsh and Sydney Smale
Identifying key issues affecting the retention of emergency service volunteers by Alan Aitken
The Omagh bomb, August 15 1998: an experience of disaster recovery work in Northern Ireland by Sue Pittman
Landslide risk in Cairns by Marion Michael-Leiba, Ken Granger and Greg Scott
Australian disaster triage: a colour maze in the tower of Babel by Antony Nocera and Alan Garner
An Australian mass casualty incident triage system for the future based on mistakes of the past: The Homebush Triage Standard by Antony Nocera and Alan Garner
How long is too long at the sharp end? Critical incident staffing: prevention is better than cure by John Lunn
Preventing disaster by building a risk-prevention ethic into corporate governance by Rick Sarre and Meredith Doig
International law and armed conflict: implications for emergency and humanitarian organisations by Robyn Layton and Victoria Bannon
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Spring 2000
In this issue:
Technical expertise as a contributing factor in three disasters by Athol Yates
Learning from near-misses: A case study by Simon Bennett
Statutory immunities: When is good faith honest ineptitude? by Mark Henry
Coping with flood: the experience of the people of Dhaka during the 1988 flood disaster by Sarwar Jahan
Planning for the unthinkable: psychosocial reaction to Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) weapons by Hayim Granot
Disaster Mitigations: challenges to raise the capacity of at-risk populations in coping with natural, social and economic disasters by Earl James Goodyear
Taiwan Earthquake by Mark O'Connor
When disasters defy borders: what can we learn from the Red River Flood about transnational disasters? by Tricia Wachtendorf
Are emergency services becoming private? by John Handmer
The importance of measuring the social costs of natural disasters at a time of climate change by Mohammed Dore
Using social indicators to measure community vulnerability to natural hazards by David King & Colin MacGregor
Public health impact of disasters by Kimberely I Shoaf & Steven J Rottman
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Summer 2000/01
In this issue:
Cost-effective spillway design/review for small dams in Victoria: avoiding dam failure emergencies by John Pisaniello, Jennifer M. Mckay and Siraj Perera
Tasman Bridge disaster: 25th anniversary memorial service by Rod McGee and Lynn Young
Understanding employee responses to disaster by Thomas E. Drabek
Community mapping - an aid to emergency management by Rick McRae and Alan Walker
Landslips - a moving story (a Municipality's perspective) by Lex Ritchie and Glenn Hunt
East Timor - emergency risk management by Alf Turketo
New guidelines aim to support older people in emergencies by Leslie Anne Knight
Lines that divide, ties that bind: race, class, and gender in women's flood recovery in the US and UK by Elaine Enarson and Maureen Fordham
The Brisbane - Gladstone transport corridor: identification of risk and vulnerability for the bulk transport of dangerous goods By Iraphne R.W. Childs, D. Carlisle and Peter A. Hastings
Direct and vicarious experience of volcanic hazards: implications for risk perception and adjustment adoption by Douglas Paton, David M. Johnston, Mark S. Bebbington, Chin-Diew Lai and Bruce F. Houghton
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