The human side of disaster. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Thomas E. Drabek.
• Other Names: Drabek, Thomas E, 1940-
• Contents: Experiences ; The Taxi; The Setting; The Story; The Earring; The Setting; The Story; The Honeymoon; The Setting; The Story; The Ceiling; The Setting; The Story; The Regulation; The Setting; The Story; The Exercise; The Setting; The Story; The Insights; The Problem and Approach; The Danger around You Is Increasing; Population Movement; Climate Change; Potentials for Catastrophe; The Many Faces of Disaster; Natural Disasters; Technological Disasters; Conflict Disasters; The Approach; The Insights; Hear That Siren?; Who Panics and Why; Neutralizing Threat Information; Doing It Right; But Not Everyone Responds the Same; Females; Children; Ethnic Minorities; Elderly; Experience; Economics; Message Characteristics; Group Context; The Insights; It Can’t Be Done; That Lady Named Carla; A Disaster Subculture?; The Mythology of Car Wrecks; "Resisters? We Will Arrest Them!"; Confirmation: A Likely Action; Appeal to Authority; Appeal to Peer; Observational Confirmation; Latent Confirmation; Families Are the Units; The Insights; Shall We Leave?; Pathways to Evacuation; Evacuation by Default; Evacuation by Invitation; Evacuation by Compromise; Evacuation by Decision; Where Do They Go?; "We Wanna Go Home"; Evacuation Facilitators; Encourage Family Planning for an Evacuation; Media Consistency; Forceful, but Not Mandatory; Allay Looting Fears; Facilitate Transportation; Establish Family Message Centers; An Aside: Crisis Relocation Planning and Homeland; Security Advisory System; Crisis Relocation Planning; Homeland Security Advisory System; The Insights; Why Me?; Victim Responses; The Disaster Syndrome: Another Myth Exploded; Heroes: They Are for Real; Helpers: How Many Are There?; "Where Is My Daughter?"; But There Are Constraints; The Age of Litigation; Expanding Poverty; Bureaucratic Mindsets; The Insights; Volunteers? You Bet!; The Flood Breakers; Are Volunteers Like Yachts?; The Utopian Mood; Unveiling the Many Forms of Volunteerism; The Insights; Organized Disorganization; Raining in Indianapolis; "But We Deal with Emergencies Daily"; Indianapolis Coliseum Explosion, October 31, 1963; Wichita Falls, Texas, Tornado, April 10, 1979; Mount St. Helens Eruption, May 18, 1980; Sorting Out Organizational Responders; Is Communication the Problem?; Lake Pomona SAR Response, June 17, 1978; Social Map: Lake Pomona Communication Structure; Cooperation Is Not Enough; Issue: Focused Public Information Plan; The Insights; Life in a Fishbowl; The Bitch Phase; Looting Fears; Bad Dreams; Seeking Closure; Short-Term Oscillations; Windows of Opportunity; "When Can We Go Home?"; The Insights; What about My Psyche?; An Atypical Example; Modal Patterns; Patterned Variations; Kinfolk and Friends; "This Is My Mother"; The Insights; What Must Be Done?; Variable Perceptions of Risk; Reducing Vulnerabilities; Spread the Risk; Creating a Culture of Preparedness; Disasters Are Nonroutine Social Problems; The Insights; Community Change Agents; Empirical Studies; Professionalism in Emergency Management; An Expanded Vision; Strategies for Maintaining Organizational Integrity; Mitigation Strategies ; Preparedness Strategies; Disaster Response Coordination Strategies; Core Strategies; Consequence Strategies; Customer Strategies; Control Strategies; Cultural Strategies; Concluding Principles; Notes; Suggested Readings; Index;
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (446 pages), (2 illustrations)
• Subjects: 155.935; Disasters -- Psychological aspects; Emergency management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315360454; 1315360454
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.