Response to Disaster Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation -The Sociology of Disaster-

Name: Response to Disaster Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation -The Sociology of Disaster-
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ISBN: 9780761811831

ISBN-10: 0761811834

ISBN-13: 9780761811831

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: Henry W. Fischer, Henry W. Fischer

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This edition of Response to Disaster provides an updated and more thorough version of the well-received 1994 first edition. The author adds new research and expands on areas only briefly developed in the first edition, which disseminated the original research findings from several disaster research studies completed by the author. He provides the reader with a basic understanding of how people and organizations usually respond to a disaster in contrast to how they are usually perceived to respond, as well as a description of how and why the mass media helps provide both accurate and inaccurate information involving disasters. In addition, the author discusses organizational response to…

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List price: $66.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/3/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.54" wide x 8.52" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



What is a Disaster?



Behavioral Response to Disaster


Case Study: Why Do Some Evacuate, While Others Do Not? The Ephrata, Pennsylvania Evacuation



Why We Believe the Disaster Mythology


Case Study: Disastrous Fantasizing in the Print Media: How Disasters Have Been Portrayed in Newsmagazine Reporting Over a 40 Year Period


Case Study: Hurricane Gilbert as the Media's Creation of the 'Storm of the Century' During September 1988



Organizational Response to Disaster


Case Study: What the Professionals Believe and The Role of Experience


Case Study: Media's Impact on EOC Response


Case Study: Experience and Mitigation Planning


Case Study: Earthquake Hazard Risk Reduction and Seismic Vulnerability



Future Research Needs


Author's Final Note


Bibliography


Index


About the Author