Response to Disaster Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation

Name: Response to Disaster Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation
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ISBN: 9780761841173

ISBN-10: 0761841172

ISBN-13: 9780761841173

Edition: 3rd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Henry W. Fischer, Henry W. Fischer

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Response to Disaster combines the original research of author Henry W. Fischer, III with the literature used today to describe behavioral and organizational challenges commonly experienced before, during, and after disasters. Actual problems are presented and compared to those often misperceived to occur, known as disaster mythology. Fischer examines case studies conducted during the post-impact and long-term recovery periods of major and minor disasters worldwide. He asserts that the role of the mass media assists in eliciting needed help with an effective response, but also perpetuates disaster mythology.

Book details

List price: $56.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.10" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



What is a Disaster?


Introduction


Definition


A Disaster Scale


Frequency of Disaster Events


Types of Disasters


Disaster Time Periods


Four Phases of Emergency Management


Sociological Theory


How Do We Come to Know What We Know About Disasters?


Integration with Theory



Who Does Disaster Research?


Introduction


Several U.S. Centers of Disaster Research


Who's Who in Disaster Research?


Several Key Journals in Disaster Research



Behavioral Response to Disaster


The Public Perception of How People Behave In a Disaster


First Case Study: Evacuation Behavior: Why Do Some Evacuate, While Others Do Not? A Case Study of the Ephrata, Pennsylvania Evacuation


The "Looting" Myth and the Reality


Second Case Study: Terrorism & September 11, 2001: Does the "Behavioral Response to Disaster" Model Fit?



Why We Believe the Disaster Mythology


Mass Media as a Source of Information on Disasters


First Case Study: Disastrous Fantasizing in the Print Media: How Disasters Have Been Portrayed in Newsmagazine Reporting over a Forty Year Period


Second Case Study: Hurricane Gilbert: The Media's Creation of the Storm of the Century during September 1988



Organizational Response to Disaster


Emergency Organizations


First Case Study: LEMA Myth Survey: Has Anything Changed in 20 Years? What the Professionals Believe & the Role of Experience


Second Case Study: Media's Impact on EOC Response: EOC Preoccupation with Media: Dorothy's Experience


Third Case Study: The Role of Education & Experience in Mitigation Planning


Fourth Case Study: Earthquake Hazard Risk Reduction & Seismic Vulnerability: Low Risk + No Experience with An Agent = No Mitigation


Fifth Case Study: The 2004 Boxing Day South Asian Tsunami: Mass Fatalities Management-Observations of the Field Team in Thailand


Sixth Case Study: The Emergency Management Response To Hurricane Katrina: As Told by the First Responders-A Case Study of What Went Wrong & Recommendations for the Future



Future Research Needs


Disaster Historians & Disaster Janitors


Necessary Research Advances


New Disaster Agents-Old Socio-Political Challenges


Author's Final Note


Bibliography


About the Author