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Item An Annotated Bibliography And Listing Of The Social Science Literature On Planning For And Responding To Hazardous Materials Disasters(Disaster Research Center, 1992) Hughes, Mary AnnItem An Annotated Bibliography on Disaster Mental Health and Crisis Intervention in Smaller Communities(Disaster Research Center, 1978) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Baisden, BarbaraItem Annotated Bibliography on Fire Science(Disaster Research Center, 2007) Torres, Manuel; Barsky, Lauren; Aguirre, Benigno E.; Poteyeva, RitaThis annotated bibliography is a product of the Disaster Research Center’s ongoing study of search and rescue (S&R) activity in fires which uses the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data collected by the United States Fire Administration (USFA) to model fire injury and death. It was compiled as part of our examination of civilian death and injury due to structural fires. It focuses on such areas as structural collapse, civilian injury and mortality, firefighter injury and death, causes of fires, behaviors related to injury and death, and the process of search and rescue in fires. It presents a synthesis of several key areas of interest within the emerging discipline. While it is not an exhaustive bibliography representative of all areas of study, it provides an initial overview of several key areas and could serve as a starting point to research. Available findings from various studies could be compared to replicate and augment existing knowledge, as well to develop theories on the effects of the presence of S&R on morbidity and on the causes of civilian injury and mortality.Item The Art of Storytelling: The Structuring and Processing of News During Disasters(Disaster Research Center, 1987) Friedman, Barbara JillThe goal of this study is to examine the operations of local mass media organizations during the impact period of disasters. Eight organizational dimensions related to the structuring and processing of news are examined. These dimensions include 1) gatekeeping, 2) decision making, 3)the role of technology, 4)reporter autonomy, 5) the role of press conferences and press releases, 6) sources, 7) the role of television, radio and newspaper, 8) the sharing of information. Normal, non-disaster patterns related to these eight dimensions are compared with their patterns during the emergency period. Changes from the normal structure and process are noted. An elaborate case study of the local media outlets in one community is constructed. Findings from this case are discussed and placed within the context of research literature. These findings are then compared with data from local media outlets in five other communities. The findings from the case study generally were replicated in the other communities. The study suggests that community and organizational size have a substantial effect upon media operations during disasters.Item Assessing Community-scale Damage, Disruption, and Early Recovery in Post-earthquake Haiti(Disaster Research Center, 2010) Adams, Beverley; Amyx, Paul; Bevington, John; Brink, Susan; Chang, Stephanie; Davidson, Rachel; Eguchi, Ronald; Hill, Arleen; Honey, Matthew; Mills, Robin; Panjwani, Dilnoor; Pyatt, SarahThis report describes research on community-scale damage and disruption in Haiti after the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake. Data collection was undertaken with support from the National Science Foundation through RAPID grant no. CMMI-1034876. The project had three specific objectives: (1) to gather perishable data on physical damage and disruption, (2) to document and analyze post-earthquake disruption, including its relationship to damage, and (3) to test a new tool and measurement scale for documenting disruption.Item Behavior In Disaster And Implications For The Insurance Industry(Disaster Research Center, 1992) Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L.Item A Brief Summary of Search and Rescue Literature: A Report to COT Netherlands(Disaster Research Center, 2008) Trainor, Joseph; Aguirre, Benigno E.; McNeil, SueThe accumulated of research on search and rescue (SAR) allows us to identify repeating patterns that should be considered in the development of an effective plan for national emergency response: (1) SAR is not simply an organizational activity, it necessarily includes the social and collective behavior of volunteers; (2) Preexisting and emergent organizations, social statuses and social identities, such as neighborhood and work place relationships and family and neighborhood social identities, serve as a basis for the emergence of new SAR groups and constitute the fundamental concepts and categories that are needed to understand and improve SAR activities; (3) SAR activities do not emerge from a vacuum; as an example of the principle of continuity advocated by Quarantelli and Dynes (1977), there are always elements of the traditional social structure embedded within collective behavior entities, and their emergent division of labor, role structure, and activities are also dependent on prior social relationships and forms of social organization in the community or region; (4) Breakdown models of social organizational patterns in disaster are not useful to understand SAR. Television reports and misinformed reporters often misinterpret throngs of people moving seemingly at random at the sites destroyed by various hazards, and assume that the people were disoriented immediately after impact and had lost their ability to enact social roles. Despite these reports, scientific research shows the absence of widespread confusion, lack of coordination, and panic (Aguirre, 2005). The seeming disorganization and aimless movement of people is the result of their individual and collective acts as they try to accomplish multiple individual and collective goals under severe time constraints (c.f. Fritz & Mathewson, 1957). Creative problem-solving and rationality is a more accurate way of understanding their actions (Aroni & Durkin, n.d., p. 30). In short search and rescue (SAR) activities are part of the complex emergency response system that emerges in response to disasters.Item A Brief Summary of Social Science Warning and Response Literature: A Report to COT Netherlands(Disaster Research Center, 2008) Trainor, Joseph; McNeil, SueFor more than five decades, researchers have explored the dynamics of warnings and warning response in the disaster context. This report is intended to briefly summarize findings related to this topic. The ultimate goal is to provide a basic understanding of how social science research related to warnings and evacuations might inform policy makers and emergency managers. Before we begin discussing the details of warning messages, the first and most important issue for readers to note is that the decision making processes of most evacuees and even non-evacuees are rational and calculated. Contrary to media depictions and other’s perceptions of the public that suggest animal-like, irrational, or antisocial behavior it is important that we begin this discussion knowing that people typically “rise to the occasion” during disasters. Although it would be wrong to suggest that people never make irrational decisions it is important that we begin this summary by recognizing that when we look at the broad patterns of human behavior documented through scientific/empirical studies, people who are experiencing a disaster far more often than not act in very rational and predictable ways. This finding above all others holds true in social science research. It is important to recognize this truth because it allows policy makers and emergency managers to move beyond the notion that the problem with warning and response is “getting people to be rational and do what we say” and instead allows us to move towards understanding “how can we change our approach so that it takes into account how people process warning information. While the difference may seem subtle, in practice it is quite important. The first sees overcoming irrationality as the problem while the second sees the institutional/organizational approach to warning as the problem.Item Centro De Investigaciones Y Estudios Superiores En Antropologia Soical(Disaster Research Center, 1997) Dynes, Russell R.Item Conceptualizing Collective Stress(Disaster Research Center, 1966) DRC StaffItem Crisis Intervention Programs For Disaster Victims: A Source Book And Manual For Smaller Communities(Disaster Research Center, 1977) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Baisden, BarbaraItem Delivery of Emergency Medical Services In Disaster(Disaster Research Center, 1977) Quarantelli, E. L.; Taylor, Verta A.Item The Delivery of Mental Health Services in the Xenia Tornado(Disaster Research Center, 1975) Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L.Item Disaster Decision Support Tool (DDST): An Additional Step Towards Community Resilience(Disaster Research Center, 2008) Santos-Hernandez, Jenniffer; Rodriguez, Havidan; Diaz, WalterThe Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the University of Delaware (UD), with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Puerto-Rico-Mayagüez Sea Grant College Program (UPRSGCP), and in collaboration with the Center for Applied Social Research (CISA-UPRM), the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), the University of Delaware Research and Data Management Services (RDMS), and the Ceenter for Coastal Hazards (CCH-UPRM) are pilot testing a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based mapping tool. The Puerto Rico Disaster Decision Support Tool (DDST) is an Internet-based scalable mapping server for disaster planners, responders, and related officials at the municipal, emergency management, and state level. DDST offers access to a variety of geo-referenced information for all municipalities in Puerto Rico. The purpose of this manual is to provide an overview of the general capabilities of the DDST as a way to facilitate the use of the tool.Item Disaster Realities in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Revisiting the Looting Myth(Disaster Research Center, 2006) Barsky, Lauren; Trainor, Joseph; Torres, ManuelItem Disaster Recovery: Comments On The Literature And A Mostly Annotated Bibliography*(Disaster Research Center, 1989) Quarantelli, E. L.Item The Disaster Research Center And Its Activities(Disaster Research Center, 1991) Quarantelli, E. L.Item The Disaster Research Center Simulation Studies of Organizational Behavior Under Stress(Disaster Research Center, 1967) DRC StaffItem The Disaster Research Center: Its History and Activities(Disaster Research Center, 1986) Quarantelli, E. L.; Dynes, Russell R.; Wenger, D. E.Item Disaster Studies And Planning: Final Report(Disaster Research Center, 1979) Quarantelli, E. L.
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