Effective Emergency Management: Reconsidering the Bureaucratic Approach

Neal, David M.; Phillips, Brenda D.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7717.1995.tb00353.x

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“…However, this response did demonstrate some characteristics of the "emergent human resource approach", which allowed for some non-governmental response (Schneider 1992, Neal andPhilips 1994). Unfortunately, survivors suffering from mental disorders have not yet benefited from the emergent approach.…”

Section: An Institutional Pitfall Of Chinese Emergency Managementmentioning

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“…We define the Chinese government's response and recovery efforts as the "bureaucratic approach", which is characterized by formal command structures, clearly defined goals, and set policies and procedures (Schneider 1992, Neal andPhilips 1994). However, this response did demonstrate some characteristics of the "emergent human resource approach", which allowed for some non-governmental response (Schneider 1992, Neal andPhilips 1994).…”

Section: An Institutional Pitfall Of Chinese Emergency Managementmentioning

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Hierarchy, Construction, or Mentality: Capacity-Limiting Government Actions in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake of China

Sun¹,

Li²

2015

J. Contemp. East. Asia

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Section: An Institutional Pitfall Of Chinese Emergency Managementmentioning

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Hierarchy, Construction, or Mentality: Capacity-Limiting Government Actions in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake of China

Sun¹,

Li²

2015

J. Contemp. East. Asia

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“…Most developed countries have developed administrative, command and control methods that have their roots in emergency situations and crisis management [81,82]. Command and control methods tend to assume that there is a clear distinction between pre-emergency and emergency periods, and the first one is identified with normalcy and the second with chaos and disorder.…”

Section: Emergency and Crisis Management Culturesmentioning

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The Role of Volunteer Citizens in Response to Accidents and Disasters

Aminizade

Moghaddam

Jam

et al. 2017

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Background: Many organizations, especially at the time of accidents, disasters, and critical conditions, cannot provide their services without the presence of volunteers. When accidents and disasters occur, the first persons who normally appear at the scene are citizens. Volunteer citizens with the skills and local knowledge can play important roles when accidents and disasters occur and can provide valuable assistance to the relief forces. The current article aimed at examining the role of volunteer citizens in response to accidents and disasters. Materials and Methods:The current study examined the published articles from 2000 to 2016 based on the following keywords: informal volunteers in the disasters, challenges facing volunteer citizens in accidents and disasters, informal volunteers and disasters in local and foreign electronic databases including SID, Magiran, Iran Medex, ISC, Google Scholar, PubMed, ISI, and Scopus.Results: Based on the search strategy, 50 articles were examined and the keywords, definitions, volunteer roles, role of volunteers in accidents and disasters, various types of informal voluntary activities, and volunteer citizens' participation were examined. Conclusion:Studies referred to the roles, definitions, and challenges that informal volunteers face in various stages of accidents and disasters and the obvious point in the research was that more adaptive and comprehensive crisis and emergency management models are needed to utilize the capacities and flexibility of volunteers available within and between communities in disasters, and the network structure management can be helpful to manage the volunteers.

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“…The most common model of disaster management, derived from the military centralized command-and-control model (Neal & Phillips, 1995), assumes and treats the affected population as helpless victims without ability to help themselves (Dynes, 1994;Neal & Phillips, 1995), let alone help other human beings. However, disaster sociologists have shown that the opposite is actually true regarding the affected population.…”

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Distributed collaborative situation-map making for disaster response

Gunawan

Alers

Brinkman

et al. 2011

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A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords:Collaboration Sensemaking Situation mapping Disaster response Map sharing Situation awareness Distributed A situation map that shows the overview of a disaster situation serves as a valuable tool for disaster response teams. It helps them to orientate their location and to make disaster response decisions. It is, however, a complicated task to rapidly generate a complete and comprehensive situation map of a disaster area, particularly due to the centralized organization of disaster management and the limited emergency services. In this study, we propose to let the affected population be utilised as an additional resource that can actively help to make such a situation map.The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of constructing a shared situation map using a collaborative distributed mechanism. By examining earlier research, a detailed list of potential problems is identified in the collaborative map-making process. These problems were then addressed in an experiment which evaluated a number of proposed solutions. The results showed that more collaboration channels led to a situation map of better quality, and that including confidence information for objects and events in the map helped the discussion process during the map-making.

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Effective Emergency Management: Reconsidering the Bureaucratic Approach

Cited by 175 publications

References 15 publications

Hierarchy, Construction, or Mentality: Capacity-Limiting Government Actions in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake of China

Hierarchy, Construction, or Mentality: Capacity-Limiting Government Actions in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake of China

The Role of Volunteer Citizens in Response to Accidents and Disasters

Distributed collaborative situation-map making for disaster response

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