of the physical science community, decision-makers and the public, who have not yet accepted the idea that understanding … use of technology. This special issue is intended to further the idea that the aspects of community and peoples’ power to …

The role of community-based religious institutions has been largely undocumented, underestimated and overshadowed in … the disaster studies literature. This paper explores the role of the mosque, a community-based religious institution, in … study contribute to the scarce knowledge about the role of community-based religious institutions including churches …

in an unplanned community in the Eastern Caribbean. In order to quantify the level of landslide risk reduction achieved … part of the community-based landslide mitigation project cycle, and it is hoped that this resource, and the results of this …

responsibilities and community-level initiatives. It argues that these are interdependent, but separate aspects of emergency management … (networks of strong and weak ties) that may work to improve a community’s resilience to risks and hazards. Two cases studies …

as rapidly as possible. The whole community must be mobilised to restore functions and meet needs, to return to the … normality of the pre-disaster state. This latter purpose is least likely to be achieved, as the destroyed community can seldom … community to the single purpose of recovery requires a high level of organisation. Response to a disaster demands that there be …

) and social characteristics (community participation, collective efficacy, empowerment, trust) could explain levels of …

community is great. Pre-disaster emergency evacuation zoning has become a significant topic of disaster prevention and … communities, a systematical methodology for occupant evacuation against earthquakes on community scale was developed by employing … and mitigation on a community scale, especially for organizing a rapid and smooth evacuation and optimizing the location …