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.