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Critical Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners

Trainor, Joseph E.; Subbio, Tony (FEMA Higher Education Project, 2014)

The FEMA Higher Education Program has released a new book that combines the knowledge and experience of emergency management practitioners and researchers, the result of which is a dialogue between the two sectors about ...
Disaster and Organizational Change: A Study of the Long-term Consequences in Anchorage of the 1964 Alaska Earthquake

Anderson, William A. (Disaster Research Center, 1969-09)

Some of the monographs in the series published by the Disaster Research Center (DRC) present theoretical discussions of short-run organizational responses to community crises. Others of the monographs deal with general ...
An Exploratory Research Agenda for Studying the Popular Culture of Disasters (PCD): Its Characteristics, Conditions, and Consequences

Quarantelli, E. L.; Davis, Ian (Disaster Research Center, 2011)

This book advances a research agenda for a little studied topic, namely the popular culture of disasters (PCD). We systematically although selectively outline some possible fruitful topics and questions that researchers ...
Individual and Organizational Response to the 1985 Earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico

Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L.; Wenger, Dennis (Disaster Research Center, 1990)

This volume summarizes a 24 month field project that was undertaken by the Disaster Research Center (DRC) and that ran from June 1986 through May 1988. As such, it highlights the general findings and major themes of our ...
Inventory of the Disaster Field Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences 1919-1979

Quarantelli, E. L. (Disaster Research Center, 1984)

In 1961 the Disaster Research Group of the National Academy of Sciences issued a monograph entitled Field Studies of Disaster Behavior: An Inventory. That monograph was an attempt to provide in one source “a relatively ...
Investigating the Benefits and Drawbacks of Realigning the National Guard under the Department of Homeland Security

Burke, Ryan; McNeil, Sue (United States Army War College Press, 2016-08)

The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) designates homeland defense (HD) as one of the three core pillars of the nation’s current and future defense strategy. Defending the homeland from external threats and aggression ...
Maturing Defense Support of Civil Authorities and the Dual Status Commander Arrangement Through the Lens of Process Improvement

Burke, Ryan; McNeil, Sue (U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, 2015-04)

The role of the military during homeland defense and civil support operations has significant strategic implications for U.S. national security efforts. Considerations for the future employment of Active Component forces ...
Toward a Unified Military Response: Hurricane Sandy and the Dual Status Commander

Burke, Ryan; McNeil, Sue (U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, 2015-04)

U.S. military forces have played a role in supporting civil authorities in varying locations and capacities from the Whiskey Rebellion to Hurricane Sandy. In a large-scale incident response scenario requiring combined ...

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