The influx of supplies after disaster events helps to meet emergent needs of the impacted area and fill gaps in logistical plans. This same materiel convergence, however, can pose a challenging social problem as organizations ...

This paper discusses the role of creativity in mounting an emergency response, using the World Trade Center attack as an exploraiory case study. The paper observes that the exercise of creativity by emergency managers ...

This paper examines the extent to which social demographic characteristics and past earthquake experience influence judgments about the likelihood of a major earthquake and the risk of specific earthquake outcomes, ...

Improvisation is a significant feature of every disaster, and Tierney (2002) has argued that, if an event doesn’t require improvisation, it is probably not a disaster. Improvisation has had something of a checkered history ...