David Alexander
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3700128 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Alexander |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Alexander |
| ASSINATURA | ALEXANDER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1235-3658 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 98 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From Military to Civilian Context
The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake
On 1st January 2024 an Mw7.5 earthquake occurred along an active fault across the Noto Peninsula. The tremors generated a wide range of cascading hazards, including geological uplift, liquefaction, landslides, fires and tsunamis. This study offers some preliminary observations on the impacts of the cascading hazards. It also describes the pattern of casualties and the experience of evacuees and the management of evacuation centers. The hazards ca…
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions
Impact of Wearing on Filtration Performance of Electrostatic Filter Face Masks
Certified disposable respirators afford important protection from hazardous aerosols but lose performance as they are worn. This study examines the effect of wear time on filtration efficiency. Disposable respirators were worn by CSIRO staff over a period of 4 weeks in early 2020. Participants wore the respirator masks for given times up to eight hours whilst working in laboratory/office environments. At that time COVID-19 precautions required st…
The Effect of Sanitizing Treatments on Respirator Filtration Performance
The potential for alcoholic vapors emitted by common sanitizing treatments to deteriorate the (electrostatic) filtration performance of disposable respirator masks has been investigated. Reports in the literature and some standard test methods provide a confusing and ambiguous picture concerning the relevance of this effect. Four different types of exposure were investigated in this study to clarify the effect of alcoholic vapor emissions on resp…
Managing systemic risk in emergency management, organizational resilience and climate change adaptation
Purpose This paper applies the theory of cascading, interconnected and compound risk to the practice of preparing for, managing, and responding to threats and hazards. Our goal is to propose a consistent approach for managing major risk in urban systems by bringing together emergency management, organisational resilience, and climate change adaptation. Design/methodology/approach We develop a theory-building process using an example from the work…
Cascading disasters triggered by tsunami hazards
Although many studies have investigated relationships between tsunami characteristics and the impact on physical property and infrastructure, such information cannot explain how the damage to each object or type of infrastructure can trigger failures of other facilities. To understand these connections and the cascading impacts, this article reviewed several recent damaging tsunami events in Japan and Indonesia, including the 2004 Indian Ocean ts…
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 role of translators and interpreters in cascading crises and disasters
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the significance of cascading crises for translators and interpreters, and how their work may be affected by such events. It provides a theoretical basis for analysis and field practice. Design/methodology/approach The authors define cascades and explain how they influence the development of preparedness, mitigation and response. The authors identify key drivers of cascading crises and discuss how t…
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…
Natural Disasters
As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster. The main disaster-producing agents are reviewed systematically in terms of geophysical processes and effects, monitoring, mitigation and warning. The relationship between disasters and society is examined with respect to a wide variety of themes, including damage assessme…
L’Aquila, central Italy, and the “disaster cycle”, 2009-2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical examination of the aftermath of the L’Aquila earthquake of 6 April 2009. It considers the elements of the recovery process that are unique or exceptional and endeavours to explain them. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a survey and synthesis of the abundant literature on the disaster, coupled with observations from the author’s many visits to L’Aquila and personal involv…
Civil protection in Italy - coping with multiple disasters
In Italy, 2017 was a period of intense natural disasters but also of laboured reforms to the national civil protection system, which was under strain after a series of damaging earthquakes and other extreme events. The 2009 L’Aquila earthquake cast a long shadow in terms of the aftermath of the (ultimately unsuccessful) prosecution of members of the National Major Risks Commission for providing misleading information on seismic risk. The trial in…
The prudence principle and Economia Aziendale
Natural Disasters
As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster. The main disaster-producing agents are reviewed systematically in terms of geophysical processes and effects, monitoring, mitigation and warning. The relationship between disasters and society is examined with respect to a wide variety of themes, including damage assessme…
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…
The game changes
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of Disaster Prevention and Management . It reviews the modern-day challenges facing researchers, scholars and practitioners who work in the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR). Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews key issues in DRR, including the relationship between capital and labour and its influence on vulnerability, the role of human mobility an…
Ecological economics
The portrayal of disaster in Western fine art
This paper surveys the depiction of disaster in Western art over the centuries. Emphasis is placed on the Italian tradition, as Italy is a country that has a rich experience of both artistic developments and disasters and has provided inspiration to artists from other countries. The survey begins with Classical art and continues with the Mediaeval fresco tradition. The vision of disaster was expanded when naturalism was introduced into art during…
Recovery from Disaster
Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery—providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives—generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. On average 650 disasters occur each year. They affect more than 200 million people and cause $166 trillion of damage. Climate change, population growth …
Evaluation of civil protection programmes, with a case study from Mexico
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for assessing and characterising the state of development of a civil protection (emergency preparedness) system, with particular attention to the local level, where such systems are rooted. Design/methodology/approach – Groups of indicators are suggested as a means of evaluating each component of the system. The paper proposes a means of using these to identify which parts of the sys…
Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
"Reducing risk that emerges from hazards of natural origin and societal vulnerability is a key challenge for the development of more resilient communities and the overall goal of sustainable development. Newest global assessment reports (GAR 2011, Welle et al. 2012; IPCC 2013) underscore that risk reduction and resilience building remains a key challenge for developing and developed countries alike particularly due to the increasing exposure of p…
Social Media in Disaster Risk Reduction and Crisis Management
Personhood and Pathology
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…
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…
An evaluation of medium-term recovery processes after the 6 April 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Central Italy
This article uses the earthquake of 6 April 2009 at L'Aquila, central Italy (magnitude 6.3) as a case history of processes of recovery from disaster. These are evaluated according to criteria linked to both vulnerability analysis and disaster risk-reduction processes. The short- and medium-term responses to the disaster are evaluated, and 11 criticisms are made of the Italian Government's policy on transitional shelter, which has led to isolation…
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…
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.…
Housing crisis after natural disaster
Disease epidemiology and earthquake disaster
The Education of Adults in Scotland
Northern Italian dam failure and mudflow, July 1985
La Ricerca Geografica in italia, 1960-80
Daunia Vetus
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…
Natural Disasters
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
Retailing in England during the Industrial Revolution
Attention Dysfunction in Senile Dementia
A group of 14 patients suffering from senile dementia were compared with 40 normal and 20 non-brain-damaged psychiatric controls on a visual vigilance task. The senile Ss were able to perform at a level appropriate to their ages when the task involved a simple S-R paradigm. When the complexity of the task was increased by requiring the short-term retention of response-relevant information, brain-damaged patients were markedly less efficient. Over…
The Decay of Trade
Ricerche Sull'assetto Territoriale della Lombardia
Milano
The Decay of Trade
Old and New Money
Daunia Vetus
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…
Volumes Not Values
This is the third volume of papers from the annual workshops of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project. The first dealt with shipbuilding and the composition of merchant fleets in the North Atlantic in the nineteenth century. The second focussed on the Atlantic Provinces of Canada and whether the region's general economic performance and the rise and fall of its shipping industry could be linked to the changing perceptions and capacities of its ent…
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
La Ricerca Geografica in italia, 1960-80
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
Earthquakes and the Continuing Problem of Landslides in Southern Italy
The Reclamation of Val-di-Chiana (Tuscany)
Val-di-Chiana, a fertile alluvial valley in north-central Tuscany, was extensively settled by the Etruscans and Romans, but stream gradients were insufficient to prevent the floodplain from turning into a silty wetland after deforestation and tectonic uplift had accelerated the rate of sedimentation by tributary streams. Malarial infestation began in Etruscan times with the inception of marshes and became serious during the Middle Ages and Renais…
Housing crisis after natural disaster
Sturzstrom in the Upper Rhône Valley, Switzerland, 1584
Atlantic Canada and Confederation
David Alexander, a reminiscence / Stuart O. Pierson -- Development and dependence in Newfoundland, 1880-1970 -- The politicl economy of fishing in Newfoundland -- Canadian regionalism -- Economic growth in the Atlantic regi 1880 to 1940 -- New notionsof happiness -- Old and new money -- The erosion social democracy in Canada -- Literacy and economic development in nineteenth-century Newfoundland -- Convocation address, Memorial University Newfoun…
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
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