Community Processes: Coordination

Drabek, Thomas E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63254-4_25

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“…The extent to which communities have planned and undertaken other preparedness efforts affects the management of the event (Alexander 2002, 2015; Auf der Heide 1989; Barton 1969; Drabek 2003; National Research Council 2006). Governments and organizations are most likely to have undertaken preparedness efforts related to emergencies because they occur most frequently and are the easiest to plan for (Quarantelli 2005).…”

Section: Amending the Hazard Event Classificationmentioning

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Revisiting emergencies, disasters, & catastrophes: Adding duration to the hazard event classification

Montano,

Savitt

2023

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Disaster researchers have long sought to classify hazard events using various characteristics. Despite varying perspectives on how hazard events differ, the most commonly used classification in disaster scholarship categorizes hazard events as either emergencies, disasters, or catastrophes, which generally are described as being distinguished based on impacts, needs, stakeholder involvement, and management approach. Although this hazard event classification is useful, disaster scholars have noted it needs further refinement and development. In an effort to address these calls from disaster scholars and create a more robust hazard event classification, the traditional classification is revisited and expanded. Specifically, this article proposes the addition of a second dimension, response duration, to the existing hazard event type classification, which to this point has largely been defined by scale of impacts, needs, stakeholder involvement, and management approach. This paper argues short and long-duration emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes are categorically different and therefore require different management approaches, and can be used to categorize and distinguish between events such as COVID-19 and Hurricane Katrina and the Levee Failure. The proposed change would have important implications for emergency management practice and policy and would encourage a re-evaluation of the kinds of hazard events considered to be part of the academic purview of emergency management.

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Section: Amending the Hazard Event Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting emergencies, disasters, & catastrophes: Adding duration to the hazard event classification

Montano,

Savitt

2023

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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“…They also take the leading role in coordinating different social organizations and private firms to provide relief supplies effectively and efficiently. Similar to inter-organizational coordination, the necessity of bridging the intergovernmental distance also became recognized explicitly [ 34 ]. Once the government fails, people would suffer.…”

Section: Coordination Decisionsmentioning

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Critical Decision-Making Issues in Disaster Relief Supply Management: A Review

Yan

et al. 2022

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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This paper comprehensively reviews the literature related to disaster relief supply management in recent years by taking the perspectives of three critical decision-making issues, i.e., coordination issues, facility location decisions, and inventory decisions. For each decision-making issue discussed, we clarify the barriers of current research papers and identify the major challenges and critical factors that should be considered. In the following, we present the perspectives on the road of coordination between multiple relief actors, characterize the location decisions of relief facilities with a variety of optimization objectives, and emphasize the importance of relief supply varieties and critical factors in the decisions of disaster relief inventories. Future research directions are recommended for further discussions.

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“…the Command & Control Research Program, CCRP). Terms such as coordination are used in parallel for describing an approach, an activity, a structure or an effect (see Drabek, ; Ekman & Uhr, ; Quarantelli, ; Uhr, ). When it comes to other related terms, such as leadership, Stogdill () wrote that ‘there are almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept’ (p. 7).…”

Section: The Need For a Complex Understanding Of Disaster Response Mamentioning

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“…Researchers within the field of disaster research such as Quarantelli (), Dynes (), Dynes and Aguirre (), and Drabek () all advocate a focus on coordination in prescriptive discussions of disaster response management. However, it can be challenging to understand the various aspects and nuances of the term and how to relate it to other terms concerning ‘management’.…”

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A Complexity Framework for Studying Disaster Response Management

Bergström

Uhr

Frykmer

2016

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Guided by complexity theory, in this article, we argue that a complex understanding of disaster response management can be achieved by making multiple, transparent and modest interpretations. We suggest an analytical framework in which multiple system interpretations are constructed, all based on explicit analytical choices according to three aspects: (1) system dimension, (2) system scope and (3) system resolution. We apply the framework to a major Swedish forest fire and conclude that direction and coordination as system properties, emerging at a macro level, are the result of interplay between various patterns of influences. These patterns, we argue, can be constructed and analysed through a complexity framework allowing for the construction, and contrasting, of multiple system interpretations.

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Community Processes: Coordination

Cited by 18 publications

References 108 publications

Revisiting emergencies, disasters, & catastrophes: Adding duration to the hazard event classification

Revisiting emergencies, disasters, & catastrophes: Adding duration to the hazard event classification

Critical Decision-Making Issues in Disaster Relief Supply Management: A Review

A Complexity Framework for Studying Disaster Response Management

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