Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (DPM)

Disaster Prevention and Management (DPM) aims to offer diverse critical perspectives on all dimensions of disasters. We are therefore open to multiple ontologies and epistemological interpretations of disasters. As such, the journal embraces the ethos and objectives of the Disaster Studies Manifesto: Power, Prestige and Forgotten Values which we encourage authors to read. We also hope authors will have reflected on the questions raised in the Disaster Studies Accord: Priorities, Values, and Relationship. The readership of Disaster Prevention and Management is primarily composed of social scientists, policymakers and practitioners. However, we welcome submissions from other fields of scholarship if they speak to our main audience. We particularly encourage contributions from early career scholars, authors from less affluent countries, and non-native English speakers. The journal publishes conceptual and theoretical reflections, methodological contributions, and case studies. We also accept commentaries and book review essays (in dialogue with the author of the book reviewed). We further offer the opportunity to publish blogs and policy briefings through the web platform of our publisher Emerald. In line with the ethos of the Disaster Studies Manifesto: Power, Prestige and Forgotten Values submissions do not necessarily have to conform to the normative structure of academic articles. We publish photo essays and welcome comic strips, or any other creative formats deemed relevant by the editorial team. Therefore, do contact the editors if you are considering such other formats of article. The only other editorial guidelines are that submissions be limited to 7000 words and that the bibliography be formatted after our publisher’s guidelines. We expect prospective authors to outline in their cover letter how their article addresses/aligns with the expectations of our Disaster Studies Manifesto and Accord as per our editorial policy.

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (DPM) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Disaster Studies, Risk Management, Emergency Management, Public Policy, Sociology, Environmental Studies, Urban Planning, Humanitarian Studies , Online or Print , Bi-Monthly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 0965-3562, E-ISSN: 1758-6100, Established: 1992, Impact Factor: 2
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE