Disaster Research Center

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The Disaster Research Center (DRC) is the first social science research center in the world devoted to the study of disasters. Founded in 1963 at the Ohio State University, the Center is now part of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware and faculty members from the School of Public Policy and Administration, the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Civil Engineering direct Disaster Research Center projects.

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Organizational Responsibility in Disaster in American Society
(Disaster Research Center, 1963) DRC Staff
Methodological Procedures of the DRC Field Team Devleloped Follwing the Indianapolis Coliseum Explosion, October 31, 1963
(Disaster Research Center, 1963) Drabek, Thomas E.
Contingencies Affecting the Issuing Of Public Disaster Warnings at Crescent City, California
(Disaster Research Center, 1964) Yutzy, Daniel
Some Organizational and Community Activities after an Explosion at the Thompson Chemical Company, Attleboro, Massachusetts
(Disaster Research Center, 1964) Yutzy, Daniel
Organizational Response to an Explosion at Medina AEC Base, San Antonio, Texas, November 13, 1963
(Disaster Research Center, 1964-01-02) Haas, J. Eugene
The materials presented in this report were secured as part of a "training mission" and should not be construed as the result of a systematic field study. The observations and statements presented are based on semistructured discussions with some of the higher eschelon personnel in each of the local organizations which were signicantly involved in the incident. Because the incident was a case of potential rather than actual disaster, the research effort was deliberately limited to obtaining a general rather than a detailed picture of what had occurred. Thus, the findings are presented as hypotheses rather than conclusions. The report includes a very brief summeary of the events surrounding an explosion on November 13, 1963 at the Medina Facility of the United States Atomic Energy Commission near San Antonio, Texas. Following the description several hypotheses are presented and their significance for organizational planning for emergency conditions is discussed.
Some Preliminary Observation on Organizational Responses in the Emergency Period After The Niigata , Japan, Earthquake of June 16, 1964
(Disaster Research Center, 1964-06) Dynes, Russell R.; Haas, J. Eugene; Quarantelli, E. L.
Some Preliminary Observation On The Responses Of Community Organizations Involved In The Emergency Period Of The Alaskan Earthquake
(Disaster Research Center, 1964-06) Haas, J. Eugene; Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L.
Laboratory Simulation Studies of Organizational Behavior Under Stress
(Disaster Research Center, 1964-08) Drabek, Thomas E.; Haas, J. Eugene
A Description of Organizational Activities In the Fitchville, Ohio Nursing Home Fire
(Disaster Research Center, 1964-08-03) Anderson, William A.; Quarantelli, E. L.
The Baldwin Hills, California Dam Disaster
(Disaster Research Center, 1964-08-14) Anderson, William A.
Authority, Jurisdiction And Technical Competence Interorganizational Relationships At Great Falls, Montana, During The Flood of June 8-10, 1964
(Disaster Research Center, 1964-09-25) Yutzy, Daniel
Volunteerism in Disaster Situations
(Disaster Research Center, 1965) Shaskolsky, Leon
The effects of a natural disaster extend beyond the visible and tangible damage caused to the physical surroundings, and also involve a qualitative change in the nature of society. There is a change from a Gesellschaft-style society to one where relationships and interaction between people are based on Gemeinschaft-style sentiments. An analysis of the reaction of volunteers in such situations must accordingly take account of this transformed nature of society. Modern impersonal society normally provides little reason or scope for voluntaristic or altruistic actions. Inasmuch as there is volunteerism, it is generally channeled through some organized or organizational means. In contrast to this, disaster often evokes many and varied instances of volunteer activity, part of it in terms of previously planned organization, much of it spontaneous on a group or individual basis. Such a response, different from normal social life, is a consequence of the transformation whereby the basic sentiments shift from Gesellschaft to Gemeinschaft. Since even those organizations geared to disaster activities reach their maximum response through the utilization of volunteer activity, an awareness of transformation, coupled with a judicious utilization of volunteers, would contribute to the overall effectiveness of such organizations.
Some Research Questions and Planning Implications Raised by Observations Made at a Flood Threat in Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, September 25, 1964
(Disaster Research Center, 1965-01) Hundley Jr., James R.
Crescent City Revisted: A Comparison of Public Warning Procedures Used in 1964 and 1965 Emergencies
(Disaster Research Center, 1965-03) Anderson, William A.
The Minneapolis Tornadoes, May 6, 1965 Notes on the Warning Process
(Disaster Research Center, 1965-05) Adams, David S.
Some Observations On A Disaster Subculture: The Organizational Response Of Cincinnati, Ohio, To The 1964 Flood
(Disaster Research Center, 1965-06-30) Anderson, William A.
The 1965 Montreal Canada Apartment House Explosion: Some Notes and Comparisons With The Indianapolis, Indiana Coliseum Explosion
(Disaster Research Center, 1965-07) Adams, David S.
Organizational Functioning in Disaster: A Preliminary Report
(Disaster Research Center, 1966) Quarantelli, E. L.; Dynes, Russell R.; Haas, J. Eugene
Conceptualizing Collective Stress
(Disaster Research Center, 1966) DRC Staff
A Tornado Warning System: Its Functioning on Palm Sunday in Indiana
(Disaster Research Center, 1966) Brouillette, John R.