Response to disaster : fact versus fiction & its perpetuation : the sociology of disaster
The author provides 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, he discusses organizational response to disasters and assesses future needs in research to improve the reaction to them so that mitigation, planning, and disaster response activity are more effective. Here, he greatly expands the areas of theory of approaches to disaster
Print Book, English, ©1998
University Press of America, Lanham, Md., ©1998
xx, 219 pages ; 23 cm
9780761811824, 9780761811831, 0761811826, 0761811834
1079844475
1. What is a disaster?
2. Behavioral response to disaster. 2.1. Case study : Why do some evacuate, while others do not? The Ephrata, Pennsylvania evacuation
3. Why we believe the disaster mythology
3.1. Case study : Disastrous fantasizing in the print media : How disasters have been portrayed in newsmagazine reporting over a 40 year period
3.2. Case study : Hurricane Gilbert as the media's creation of the 'Storm of the Century' during September 1988
4. Organizational response to disaster
4.1. Case study : What the professionals believe & the role of experience
4.2. Case study : Media's impact on EOC response
4.3. Case study : Experience & mitigation planning
4.4. Case study : Earthquake hazard risk reduction & seismic vulnerability
5. Future research needs