• Contemporary Uses of Sociological Research: Sociology of Disaster 

  Dynes, Russell R.; Drabek, Thomas (Disaster Research Center, 1992)

  The value of sociological research is dependent on the cultural conceptualization of an issue and its public policy implications. For most of human history, disasters have been considered collective misfortunes but not ...
• Patterns of Looting and Property Norms: Conflict and Consensus in Community Emergencies 

  Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L. (Disaster Research Center, 1968)

  In this paper we shall attempt to do three things: (1) to contrast two rather different perspectives on massive looting behavior in community emergencies; (2) to note differences in patterns of looting in conflict and ...
• Access and Functional Needs 

  Brittingham, Rochelle; Goepfert, Mary (FEMA Higher Education Project, 2014)

  This chapter from the book, "Critical Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners," edited by Joseph E. Trainor and Tony Subbio, discusses the unique needs of people with ...
• The Challenges for Unconventional Response Agencies in Serving Haitian Earthquake Survivors: The Needs in ICS Training and Practices 

  Kelly, Joshua; Arlikatti, Sudha; Kendra, James; Nigg, Joanne; Torres, Manuel (Disaster Research Center, 2011)

  The Haiti earthquake of January 12th, 2010 provided a unique opportunity to further our knowledge concerning “mass invacuation” planning processes. No systematic research assessment has been undertaken to look at how host ...
• Explaining Support for Seismic Loss-reduction Measures: Data from a Household Survey in the East Bay Region of Northern California 

  Tierney, Kathleen J.; Sheng, Xueweng (Disaster Research Center, 2001)

  A willingness-to-pay framework is used to assess public support for further enhancing the seismic resistance of elements in the built environment. Using data from a survey of 727 households in the Oakland/East Bay Region, ...
• Meeting Communities Where Communities Meet: Borgharen and Itteren, Maastricht, The Netherlands 

  Velotti, Lucia; Engel, Karen; Warner, Jeroen; Weijs, Bart (Disaster Research Center, 2011)

  This report focuses on the field trip carried out on May 23rd, 2011 to the parish (village) councils of Borgharen and Itteren in the Netherlands.
• Objects of Value: Addressing Emergency and Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Resarch in Libraries and Archives 

  Young, Pat (Disaster Research Center, 2011)
• Catastrophe Characteristics and Their Impact on Critical Supply Chains: Problematizing Material Convergence and Management Following Hurricane Katrina 

  Wachtendorf, Tricia; Brown, Bethany; Holguin-Veras, Jose; Ukkusuri, Satish (Disaster Research Center, 2010)

  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 ...
• Objects of Value: Addressing Emergency and Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery Issues in Collections 

  Young, Pat (Disaster Research Center, 2009)

  This paper explores the social value in addressing emergency and disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery as they relate to collections. The concept of cultural heritage collections is explored in this ...
• Solidarity Trumps Catastrophe? An Empirical and Analytical Analysis of Post-Tsunami Media in Two Western Nations 

  Letukas, Lynn; Olofsson, Anna; Barnshaw, John (Disaster Research Center, 2009)

  This paper explores how newspaper accounts in Sweden and the United States, two geographically non-impacted nations, frame the short term response and recovery phase of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Utilizing 594 newspaper ...
• Past, Present and Future: Building an Interdisciplinary Disaster Research Center on a Half-Century of Social Science Disaster Research 

  McNeil, Sue; Quarantelli, E. L. (Disaster Research Center, 2008)

  Systematic social science disaster research began in the 1950s. The Disaster Research Center (DRC), the first social science research center in the world devoted to the study of disasters, was established at Ohio State ...
• The Symbolic Uses of Disaster and the Lessons of Disaster for Individual and Social Potential 

  Dynes, Russell R. (Disaster Research Center, 1989)

  Paper prepared for presentation at a University lecture, Shippensburg University, October 26, 1989.
• Thorns of Seismic Safety: Risk Mitigation Policy 

  Aguirre, Benigno E.; Sousa e Silva, Delta (Disaster Research Center, 2008)

  This paper's aim is to identify and discuss some societal problems that emerge in risk mitigation policy processes associated with earthquake, using the experience of California with SB 1953, the state building code. The ...
• Organizational Innovations in Crisis-Relevant Groups 

  Kreps, Gary A. (Disaster Research Center, 1971)

  The following reports from the first of a two-phase study of change in crisis-relevant organizations brought about by the possibility or occurrence of civil disorder. Based upon some preliminary observations of selected ...
• Emergency Planning for Nuclear Plants 

  Dynes, Russell R. (Disaster Research Center, 1993)

  Planning for emergencies is not new. One could argue that Noah was one of the first emergency planners since he gave considerable attention to what might be needed in an emergency. He was able to act, on the basis of ...
• Comments on the Integration of Civil Defense into Local Government 

  Quarantelli, E. L. (Disaster Research Center, 1967)

  Statement prepared on March 21, 1967 as member of the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee on Civil Defense.
• The Waterborne Evacuation of Lower Manhattan on September 11: A Case of Distributed Sensemaking 

  Kendra, James; Wachtendorf, Tricia (Disaster Research Center, 2006)

  Sensemaking is the study of how individuals and organizations understand what is happening around them. The sensemaking paradigm provides a frame for understanding the gathering and comprehension of information throughout ...
• Societal Factors Involved on Risk Mitigation Policy: Challenges to Seismic Retrofitting of Hospital Buildings 

  Sousa e Silva, Delta; Aguirre, Benigno E. (Disaster Research Center, 2008)

  This paper discusses the recurrent problems that emerge in the seismic risk mitigation policy process. It offers a definition of risk mitigation, and examines its application to earthquake threat, particularly the challenges ...
• A Brief Note on Disaster Restoration, Reconstruction and Recovery: A Comparative Note Using Post Earthquake Observations 

  Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L. (Disaster Research Center, 2008)

  Twenty general observations about disaster restoration, reconstruction and recovery are presented with attention primarily on what happens after earthquakes. Generalizations were derived from the empirical literature on ...
• Problematical Aspects of the Computer Based Information/Communication Revolution with Respect to Disaster Planning and Crisis Managing 

  Quarantelli, E. L. (Disaster Research Center, 2007)

  This paper focuses on a number of major problematical or negative aspects of the computer based information/communication revolution of the last two decades or so. While much of what we write is equally applicable to many ...

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