Disaster Planning, Emergency Management, And Civil Protection: The Historical Development And Current Characteristics Of Organized Efforts To Prevent And To Respond To Disasters
| dc.contributor.author | Quarantelli, E. L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-03-18T21:39:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-03-18T21:39:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.description | This article discusses how societies and their subdivisions (particularly at the community level) organize themselves for protection against and response to disasters and related collective crises of a peacetime nature. Complicating our presentation is that there is not much agreement even on the label designating these social arrangements. While "civil protection" is a term widely used in Europe, in many other countries around the world, the organized efforts to cope with collective threats are called "emergency management" or "disaster planning." There is a substantial but not complete overlap in referent among these three terms. Also, we will specifically examine the relationship between the phenomena called "civil protection" and "civil defense," the last being a term first applied to nonmilitary preparations for civilian involvement in wartime situations. | en |
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| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/635 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Disaster Research Center | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Preliminary Papers;227 | |
| dc.subject | Disaster | en |
| dc.subject | Societies | en |
| dc.subject | civil protection | |
| dc.subject | emergency management | |
| dc.subject | disaster planning | |
| dc.title | Disaster Planning, Emergency Management, And Civil Protection: The Historical Development And Current Characteristics Of Organized Efforts To Prevent And To Respond To Disasters | en |
| dc.type | Other | en |