Dagmar Alexander
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 203802 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dagmar Alexander |
| PRENOMES | Dagmar |
| SOBRENOME | Alexander |
| ASSINATURA | ALEXANDER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6743-4549 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions
Fallible reasons on behalf of fallibilism
Academic publishing in disaster risk reduction
Nowadays there are approximately 80 Anglophone journals that deal primarily with disaster risk reduction (DRR) and allied fields. This large array signals a sustained, if uneven, growth in DRR scholarship but also competition between the offerings of different publishers and institutions. The purpose of this article is first to summarise the development of academic publishing on DRR from its early beginnings to the present day. The paper then eva…
Understanding Compound, Interconnected, Interacting, and Cascading Risks
In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in research literature on the challenges of interconnected, compound, interacting, and cascading risks. These concepts are becoming ever more central to the resilience debate. They aggregate elements of climate change adaptation, critical infrastructure protection, and societal resilience in the face of complex, high‐impact events. However, despite the potential of these concepts to link together…
The prudence principle and Economia Aziendale
The prudence principle and Economia Aziendale
Cet article cherche à expliquer les raisons d’une double application de la prudence dans le management et dans la comptabilité à partir d’une histoire de ses significations dans l’ economia aziendale depuis le milieu du XIX e siècle. L’article montre que, dans le cadre théorique italien, le principe de prudence s’est développé de manière à proposer des critères permettant de répondre aux évolutions des besoins économiques des firmes dans un conte…
In(tra)fusion
At the end of our year-long funded collaborative writing project we met to write. We created a writing cocoon around Dagmar's kitchen table (why are kitchens so conducive to work? Is it the smell, the promise of being fed? The clutter? The hiss of the kettle?), and sat with each other, sat with our laptops. We listened to taped voices. We wrote. We wrote in response to what we heard and what we imagined we heard. We listened with each other to ot…
Critical infrastructure, panarchies and the vulnerability paths of cascading disasters
Cascading effects and cascading disasters are emerging fields of scientific research. The widespread diffusion of functional networks increases the complexity of interdependent systems and their vulnerability to large-scale disruptions. Although in recent years studies of interconnections and chain effects have improved significantly, cascading phenomena are often associated with the “toppling domino metaphor”, or with high-impact, low-probabilit…
Ecological economics
Evolution of accounting in moldova
Purpose The Republic of Moldova is a small country between Romania and Ukraine, which for more than 20 years since its independence, is still experiencing a painful process of economic and institutional reforms. The chapter provides, against a review of literature and national regulations, an analysis and possible perspectives of accounting harmonization processes in relation to historical and cultural preconditions. Approach/methodology Based on…
Modelos de vulnerabilidade social a desastres
Neste artigo discutem‐se as bases teóricas da avaliação da vulnerabilidade social aos desastres e mostra‐se que a vulnerabilidade é a componente mais importante do risco e o elemento principal dos impactos dos desastres. A percepção é um processo‐chave na tomada de decisões em situações de desastre, sendo afectada pela cultura e pelo simbolismo, que são analisados no contexto do risco de desastres. Recorre‐se a um modelo de metamorfose cultural p…
Beyond the Lecture Hall
The True and Fair View in the European Union
This paper explores the issue of the true and fair view (TFV) and the overriding principle within the European Union (EU), via a legally based analysis of the relationship between EU and national laws. We apply the supremacy of European law to methods of incorporating the TFV into national legislation, using Austria as a detailed case study, showing that all countries – maybe against their original intention – either have an override (as does Aus…
The Recent Revival of Cosmological Arguments
Cosmological arguments have received more attention in the past ten years. One reason for this is that versions with restricted or even no reliance on the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) have been formulated. By not relying on PSR - what many consider to be a necessary falsehood - philosophers have been able to escape many of the old criticisms of cosmological arguments. In this essay I survey two recent attempts at presenting a sound versio…
Making research on geological hazards relevant to stakeholders’ needs
Beyond a learning society? It is all to be done again
This article considers the ways in which educators and learning societies in Zambia and Zimbabwe have had to struggle to create independent, democratic and critical curricula in difficult circumstances over the last 50 years in the context of historical shifts in power, a declining British Empire and the re‐emergence of reactionary forces at a time when democracy is in retreat. It is argued that democratic learning societies depend on relationshi…
World Disasters Report 2005
Book reviewed in this article: World Disasters Report 2005: Focus on information in disasters , International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The Big Flood
Towards the development of a standard in emergency planning
Purpose – Given the widespread lack of homogeneity, consistency and quality control in emergency planning, this paper sets out to offer some suggestions, guidelines and models for the processes of drawing up, testing, revising and utilising an emergency plan. Design/methodology/approach – The paper considers some definitions of the term “standard” and discussing the utility of the concept with respect to emergency planning. The subsequent analysi…
Ecological frameworks in North West England
Towards the development of standards in emergency management training and education
This paper discusses the possible future role of standards in assuring the quality and content of programmes for educating and training people in the fields of emergency planning and management. Principles for the establishment of standards are presented. Existing standards in the civil protection and emergency preparedness fields are reviewed. The requisites for a training standard are described. Finally, a prototype standard is presented. The p…
From civil defence to civil protection – and back again
Civil protection, or emergency preparedness as it is known in the USA, has grown in response to the need to protect populations against natural and technological disasters. Over the past two decades it has partially supplanted civil defence, which is primarily concerned with civilian response to armed aggression. This article traces the evolution of both fields and analyses their often uneasy relationship. It discusses the probable long‐term effe…
Prints after John Collet
Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2002
Nature’s Impartiality, Man’s Inhumanity
This paper compares the terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York City and Washington to the Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755. Both events occurred, literally out of the blue, at critical junctures in history and both struck at the heart of large trading networks. Both affected public attitudes towards disaster as, not only did they cause unparalleled destruction, but they also represented symbolic victories of chaos over order, and…
Scenario methodology for teaching principles of emergency management
Scenarios are discussed in terms of their various uses in emergency planning and management. Their function in teaching programs is assessed with respect to various sorts of curricula for training emergency personnel. The format of scenarios is discussed and the potential for using the methodology creatively is explored. It is concluded that scenario methods are useful in developing such skills as time management, cognitive mapping, mediation, te…
The Study of Natural Disasters, 1977-97
As part of a series of papers to mark the 21st year of publication of Disasters, it is opportune to consider some of the changes that have occurred in the field it has covered so diligently for the last two decades. The paper begins with a brief review of the major natural disasters during this period and assesses their impact. It then considers the problem of how to define two key concepts: natural disaster and vulnerability, which remains an op…
In(tra)fusion
At the end of our year-long funded collaborative writing project we met to write. We created a writing cocoon around Dagmar's kitchen table (why are kitchens so conducive to work? Is it the smell, the promise of being fed? The clutter? The hiss of the kettle?), and sat with each other, sat with our laptops. We listened to taped voices. We wrote. We wrote in response to what we heard and what we imagined we heard. We listened with each other to ot…
Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are defined in this paper by relating the impact of extreme geophysical events to patterns of human vulnerability. Hazard perception is shown to be a factor that limits the mitigation of risk. The historical development of disaster studies is traced and five different schools of thought are identified. The current International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) is evaluated critically with regard to its potential for…
Death and injury in earthquakes
The assumption that the ratio of mortality to morbidity will approximate 1:3 in earthquake disasters is investigated. When it occurs, a 1:3 ratio is most likely to coincide with a Richter magnitude in the range 6.5-7.4, but many other ratios of death to injuries may instead be probable. For each individual disaster the pattern of casualties is likely to be very heterogeneous, but it would be easier to discover regularities if a more standardized …
World Disasters Report 2005
Book reviewed in this article: World Disasters Report 2005: Focus on information in disasters , International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The Health Effects of Earthquakes in the Mid-1990s
This paper gives an overview of the global pattern of casualties in earthquakes which occurred during the 30-month period from 1 September 1993 to 29 February 1996. It also describes some of the behavioural and logistical regularities associated with mortality and morbidity in these events. Of 83 earthquakes studied, there were casualties in 49. Lethal earthquakes occurred in rapid succession in Indonesia, China, Colombia and Iran. In the events …
Nature’s Impartiality, Man’s Inhumanity
This paper compares the terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York City and Washington to the Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755. Both events occurred, literally out of the blue, at critical junctures in history and both struck at the heart of large trading networks. Both affected public attitudes towards disaster as, not only did they cause unparalleled destruction, but they also represented symbolic victories of chaos over order, and…
Problems of educational reform in Zambia
The Venetian Empire
For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to G…
The Decay of Trade
Modelos de vulnerabilidade social a desastres
Neste artigo discutem‐se as bases teóricas da avaliação da vulnerabilidade social aos desastres e mostra‐se que a vulnerabilidade é a componente mais importante do risco e o elemento principal dos impactos dos desastres. A percepção é um processo‐chave na tomada de decisões em situações de desastre, sendo afectada pela cultura e pelo simbolismo, que são analisados no contexto do risco de desastres. Recorre‐se a um modelo de metamorfose cultural p…
Preserving the Identity of Small Settlements during Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Italy1
The nature of small, historic settlements in Apennine Italy is described and options for reconstructing them are discussed. Villages and towns are disproportionately vulnerable to damage by even small earthquakes, which can cause substantial changes to their distinctive character. Responses to such events are outlined, including various strategies of evacuation and the process of developing standardized methods for post-disaster architectural sur…
Valtellina Landslide and Flood Emergency, Northern Italy, 1987
This report describes the progress of the landslide and flood emergency that occurred in Valtellina, in the northern Italian Alps, during July and August 1987. For the authorities, the critical problem was one of controlling the rise of a large lake impounded on the River Adda by landslide debris that threatened to breach catastrophically, releasing a major floodwave. Several lessons can be learned from the way in which the emergency was managed.…
Disease epidemiology and earthquake disaster
The Education of Adults in Scotland
Northern Italian dam failure and mudflow, July 1985
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions
Academic publishing in disaster risk reduction
Nowadays there are approximately 80 Anglophone journals that deal primarily with disaster risk reduction (DRR) and allied fields. This large array signals a sustained, if uneven, growth in DRR scholarship but also competition between the offerings of different publishers and institutions. The purpose of this article is first to summarise the development of academic publishing on DRR from its early beginnings to the present day. The paper then eva…
The Recent Revival of Cosmological Arguments
Cosmological arguments have received more attention in the past ten years. One reason for this is that versions with restricted or even no reliance on the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) have been formulated. By not relying on PSR - what many consider to be a necessary falsehood - philosophers have been able to escape many of the old criticisms of cosmological arguments. In this essay I survey two recent attempts at presenting a sound versio…
Beyond a learning society? It is all to be done again
This article considers the ways in which educators and learning societies in Zambia and Zimbabwe have had to struggle to create independent, democratic and critical curricula in difficult circumstances over the last 50 years in the context of historical shifts in power, a declining British Empire and the re‐emergence of reactionary forces at a time when democracy is in retreat. It is argued that democratic learning societies depend on relationshi…
The Big Flood
Workers’ education and human crisis in Zambia
The most important challenge in our era is finding ways and means to enable workers to survive the realities of the Structural Adjustment Programme which has brought untold misery and poverty on peasants and workers in Zambia. Changes taking place in the political, social and economic life of the country need to be carefully studied and thoroughly understood by workers and union leaders so that we manoeuvre through the situation in a much more ra…
The politics of workers’ education in Zambia
Issues in the Development of Guidance on Adult Learning Opportunities in Scotland
Training and educating in continuing education
The Rise of the Entrepreneur
"The Rise of the Entrepreneur: Fabric of British History, by J. W. Gough." Canadian Journal of History, 6(2), pp. 211–212
The Decay of Trade
Milano
The Decay of Trade
Old and New Money
The Earthquake of 23rd November 1980
Preliminary assessment of landslides resulting from the earthquake of 23rd November 1980 in Southern Italy
This paper examines the hazards, mechanisms and effects of landsliding provoked by the 1980 earthquake in Campania and Basilicata Regions, Southern Italy. The effects of seismically-induced mass-movement are assessed with respect to slope stability and damage to both settlements and roads. Whereas the mechanism of cyclic loading of soils, which can give rise to landslides, is different from the pore-pressure, gravity loading and strength-reductio…
A Field Evaluation Report on ‘Agriplan’–An In‐Service Training Programme in Small‐Scale Agricultural Project Planning for Agricultural Officers in Zambia
(1982). A Field Evaluation Report on ‘Agriplan’–An In‐Service Training Programme in Small‐Scale Agricultural Project Planning for Agricultural Officers in Zambia. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 237-260
Epidemiological surveillance of diseases following the earthquake of 23rd November 1980, in Southern Italy
Disease epidemiology and earthquake disaster
The Venetian Empire
For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to G…
Florence flood hazard
Problems of educational reform in Zambia
Earthquakes and the Continuing Problem of Landslides in Southern Italy
Sturzstrom in the Upper Rhône Valley, Switzerland, 1584
Atlantic Canada and Confederation
Death and injury in earthquakes
The assumption that the ratio of mortality to morbidity will approximate 1:3 in earthquake disasters is investigated. When it occurs, a 1:3 ratio is most likely to coincide with a Richter magnitude in the range 6.5-7.4, but many other ratios of death to injuries may instead be probable. For each individual disaster the pattern of casualties is likely to be very heterogeneous, but it would be easier to discover regularities if a more standardized …
Bishop J. H. King and the Emergence of Holiness Pentecostalism
Training and educating in continuing education
Northern Italian dam failure and mudflow, July 1985
Rural Development
Issues in the Development of Guidance on Adult Learning Opportunities in Scotland
Valtellina Landslide and Flood Emergency, Northern Italy, 1987
This report describes the progress of the landslide and flood emergency that occurred in Valtellina, in the northern Italian Alps, during July and August 1987. For the authorities, the critical problem was one of controlling the rise of a large lake impounded on the River Adda by landslide debris that threatened to breach catastrophically, releasing a major floodwave. Several lessons can be learned from the way in which the emergency was managed.…
Issues in evaluating non‐formal education in Thailand
(1989). Issues in evaluating non‐formal education in Thailand: The significance of more qualitative approaches. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 57-82
Preserving the Identity of Small Settlements during Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Italy1
The nature of small, historic settlements in Apennine Italy is described and options for reconstructing them are discussed. Villages and towns are disproportionately vulnerable to damage by even small earthquakes, which can cause substantial changes to their distinctive character. Responses to such events are outlined, including various strategies of evacuation and the process of developing standardized methods for post-disaster architectural sur…
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