Wenger, Dennis E.2005-03-052005-03-051985http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/474Disaster researchers and emergency management officials often disagree about many facets of the disaster experience. Like the earthworm and the giraffe, it is often difficult for them to see eye-to-eye. Researchers sometime become upset with tradition-bound practitioners who seem incapable of not making the same mistake over and over again. Meanwhile, emergency management officials often become either bemused or furious with theoretical, pipe-smoking, naïve, eggheads who would not know a real-life, honest to goodness, disaster problem if it came into their Ivory Towers and bit them in the ankle.225784 bytesapplication/pdfen-USMass MediaDisastersOther