Indicative List of Dissertations for the MSc Disaster Management and Sustainable Development Taught Programme Author Year Title of Exam Abdula, Angela 2003 How does the local level health service in Mozambique cope with disaster situations? Abdula-Knight, Aida 2004 Sustainability of development: A case study of a Mozambican NGO Abebe, Moges Tefera 2004 Risk management orientated food security information systems Abudena, Hana 2010 Investigation of road traffic accidents in Libya Acheamfour, Kofi Baah 2003 Assessing the impact of food aid on education development: A case study of the WFP's school feeding programme in Malawi Ahmad, Mumtaz 2003 Recreating livelihood security in Afghanistan Alam, Edris 2007 Understanding vulnerability and local responses to cyclone disasters: Experiences from the Bangladesh coast Almazrooie, Yaser 2014 An evaluation of disaster risk reduction - a focus on flood early warning system in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Amadi, Richard Okenna 2012 Petroleum products spill impacts, emergency responses and the development of the Niger Delta, Nigeria Anu, Mbakem Evarist 2003 Post-conflict livelihood security in the Congo - Brazzaville Archbold, Kevin 2011 With consideration to current planning, resources and capacities, is a mass evacuation possible in the United Kingdom? Aryal, Komal Raj 2002 Disaster management system in Nepal: a study of the perceptions of marginalised groups in relation to disasters and a disaster management project in Nepal Aryal, Rebecca 2010 Nepali body weight, diet and lifestyle: attitudes, perceptions and resilience in Kathmandu Ashraf, Mirza Ali 2014 Adaptation and coping mechanisms of coastal community for livelihood security in response to cyclone hazard: a bangladesh perspective Atkins, James 2012 Older people's resilience to heat waves in northern Hertfordshire, exploring risk perception and social capital Avraam, Dimitrios 2012 The Significance of Physical and Social Vulnerability in the Almopia Basin, Northern Greece; Examining the 2009 Floods and a series of Earthquakes Baig Mirza Yasir 2008 Disaster risk reduction and British Muslims Balmer, Jeremy 2013 A community-based organisational perspective of outsider collaboration Bamborough, Joesph W. 2014 Risk and resilience in Rothbury: community reslilience in rural Northumberland H. Barron, Valerie 2012 Flourishing Lives? The impact of the recession upon women's capabilities in Bensham, Gateshead Bell, Robert Hugh 2002 Flooding in a Bangladeshi Village - It's perceived importance to the local population Bergbye, Tor 2011 The right to a basic income: a study of basic income programmes and their potential impact on poverty with evidence from developed and developing world contexts Bernstein, Khan Hierons 2014 Perspectives of modern western militarised humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies Bloomfield, Nicolas 2012 Politics and Climate Change: Star -Crossed Lovers? Breshnahan, Ryann 2012 Decentralisation of disaster services in Grenada Bridge, Edward 2012 An assessment of resilience in the communities of the Lower Lockyer Valley, Queensland, following the floods of December 2010/January 2011 Brooks, Caleb 2012 The Love of Liberty brought us here?: Oppression and the Re-making of Modern Liberia Brown Shaun Anthony 2011 Conceptual links between sustainable development and resilience building: a case study of Newcastle- upon-Tyne's adaptation to climate change Brown, Christine 2004 Mass casualties - Is the National Health Service within the North East of England prepared to respond? Brown, Jonathan 2012 The understanding the effectiveness of education in raising awareness of education in raising awareness Matthew of HIV and AIDS in Ghana from the view of teachers Burrows, Jennifer 2012 Community response to evacuations during volcanic events Carr, Rebecca 2011 Examination of possible limitations in the ability of the Red Cross emblem to fulfill its protective status Carroll, Krista 2011 Vulnerable transportation networks and earthquakes: a case study of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Caush, Christopher 2013 Understanding ageing and disaster: a phenomenological approach Chen, Pei-Yu 2006 Psychosocial aspects of disaster and critical incident: a study on firefighters in Taiwan Chikoto, Shallin Razawu 2007 An asset based approach to disaster risk reduction - A case study of food security in Njaminyami district, Zimbabwe Clark, Chester 2011 Effectiveness of current interventions to gender-based violence: as case study of Liberia Colley, Thomas 2009 Perception of social suffering amongst communities in Lincoln Colosi, Rachela 2003 Female asylum seekers: Barriers to their future. A study of integration Cox, Debra 2008 Cultural diversity and disaster preparedness in Gold Coast City Craggs, Adam 2012 Freshwater Sustainability: a conceptual framework for 21st century international water basis management Cromar, Helen 2006 Exploration of emerging needs and priorities upon relocation for an affected Sri Lankan community following the tsunami Dalton, Cristina 2007 Business recycling in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Devi, Tayenjam Sarju 2013 Women's perspective on violence: victims, perpetrators and instigators in case of Manipur, India Dike, Ifeanyis 2009 Rights based approach to poverty eradication in Niger Delta: Millennium Development Goals 1 and 7 in focus Dimaki, Chrysi 2010 Applying the human rights based approach to CAMPFIRE: a preliminary assessment of the Zambezi Valley Advocacy Project, Zimbabwe Diran, Eva 2011 Flooding and woodland in the Coquet catchment: a case study Dobson, Olivia 2011 Evaluating the Republic of Korea's Pre-Disaster Impact Assessment System as an Example of an Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction Measure Edgeworth, Ross 2005 (How) are the poor coping with ill health? The adoption of self-care to treat diarrhoeal disease in rural Bangladesh Egbebi, Mutiu Kehinde 2011 Nigeria Emergency Management: a risk management analysis Elliott, James 2004 Mobile data systems, decision support systems and their application in the fire& rescue service as a method of risk reduction Fei, Zov 2005 Migrant worker's rights and access to health care in China Ferguson, Kerrie-Marie 2007 The influence of tourism orientated terrorism on the livelihoods of the Bedouin people who inhabit the Southern Sinai region of Egypt Ferloni, Marco 2011 Sustainable pastoral livelihoods: a case study of Karamoja, Uganda Figueras, Kathleen 2005 What are the potential roles of local knowledge and resources to reduce the vulnerability of communities at risk against hurricanes in Jamaica? Filaferro, Alberta 2013 Smallholder agroforestry in Honduras for food security and wellbeing: impacts, incentives and constraints - a mixed methods approach Firth, Sandra 2005 The Changing nature of humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies: The Somalia example Frampton, Benjamin 2008 Increasing agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa with sustainable agriculture: An evaluation of a project strategy in Zimbabwe France, Claire 2011 A study of how resilience to flooding has been developed since 2007: the case of Shefield Girard, Trevor 2011 First nations housing in Canada: enhancing local decision making to affect local change Glavanis, Michael 2004 Governance in Egypt: The sustainable development paradigm Glendenning, David 2003 Determining the needs of displaced communities: A case study in post-conflict Sri Lanka Goolcharan, Ranie 2011 Coping mechanisms of city residents in a sudden onset technological disaster i.e. water supply breakdown Gormally, Anne 2009 Relevance of housing microfinance to promote sustainability in a disaster risk reduction and poverty alleviation programme Gour, Aradhana Shireen 2012 Do women receive adequate skills to support themselves through empowerment? To understand the role of NGOs and the government in empowering women in South India Graham, Dominic 2003 Theoretical issues in humanitarian assistance management Green, Antoinette 2014 Vulnerability of coastal developments to environmental change and impacts on community wellbeing, case study: Falmouth, Jamaica Guppy, Lisa 2008 Militia, peacekeepers and humanitarians in Darfur: Is there potential for valuable co-ordination? Hamilton, Carol. A 2011 Women, volunteering and well-being: a rural village case study Hampton, Alexander 2013 Combining the "Bayahin" approach with modern social media to improve Disaster Risk Reduction in Bale, Philipines Hardy, Ashley 2003 An examination of poverty levels among the Bhutanese refugees and the local population in Nepal Hariss, Farah 2011 Abusing the weak: the silence behind child sexual abuse in Lebanon (Beirut) Harrison, Judith 2013 Understanding factors related to barriers to employment for graduates of the Master's in Disaster Management and Sustainable Development Harrison, Judith 2013 Understanding factors related to barriers to employment for graduates of the master's in Disaster Management and Sustainable Development Hassanzai, Sanaullah Khan 2011 Policy makers' perceptions on climate change in district Abbottabad, Pakistan Henderson, Mark 2007 An analysis of the vulnerability& resilience of IDP's in Indonesia & subsequent response following the Asian tsunami of 2004 Hill, Carrie 2008 Infrastructure interdependency risk assessment for flooding: A North East case study Hill, Stephanie 2010 Tole Lane organisations and the road to resilience Hofbauer, Margarete 2010 What it means to be an immigrant Hofmann, Sonja D 2007 Awareness of and preparedness for storm surges in a coastal community on the North Sea Hood, Kathryn 2014 Can disaster education