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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Volume 15

Issue One I Issue Two I Issue Three I Issue Four

Issue One

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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Issue Two

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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Issue Three

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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Issue Four

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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