Disaster Planning, Emergency Management, And Civil Protection: The Historical Development And Current Characteristics Of Organized Efforts To Prevent And To Respond To Disasters
| Author(s) | Quarantelli, E. L. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2005-03-18T21:39:08Z | |
| Date Available | 2005-03-18T21:39:08Z | |
| Publication Date | 1998 | |
| 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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| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/635 | |
| Language | en_US | |
| Publisher | Disaster Research Center | en |
| Part of Series | Preliminary Papers;227 | |
| Keywords | Disaster | en |
| Keywords | Societies | en |
| Keywords | civil protection | |
| Keywords | emergency management | |
| Keywords | disaster planning | |
| 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 |
| Type | Other | en |