Emergency Planning
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As the number of people wanting to publish in academic journals continues to rise, malpractice proliferates, in some cases to epidemic proportions. It usually represents a failure to consider what the journal would be willing to publish. Some of the larger academic publishers automatically verify authorship.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Two years ago, the journal published its first issue to contain 100 papers. Academic publishing continues to mutate at a bewildering rate.
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Emergency Planning
AUGUST 3, 2023
This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. Print 0 46 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA At the time of writing this, the UK Government has just released the 2023 edition of the National Risk Register (NRR, HM Government 2023).
Emergency Planning
APRIL 9, 2020
This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion). I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. We confront a new phenomenon: intra-disaster research publication.
Emergency Planning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA In 1966 the eminent Californian risk analyst Chauncey Starr published a seminal paper in Science Magazine in which he stated that "a thing is safe if its risks are judged to be acceptable." A piece of the Sanriku coast at Minamisanriku, NE Japan. In 2011 there was a 20.5-metre metre tsunami here.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 27, 2020
In 2015 Gaillard and Gomez published an interesting paper on the "disaster research gold rush". A positive side of the urge to publish is the desire to contribute to the debate before it lapses because attention is diverted to other issues. As I write, the Covid-19 pandemic is ramping up in many countries.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] 1] It showed (perhaps somewhat predictively) that there was only one tiny square of the vast affected area in which Modified Mercalli intensity (which is largely a measure of damage) reached 9.0,
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