Disastrous assumptions about community disasters.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Preliminary paper (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 212Publication details: 1994Description: 12 pSubject: That there is a discrepancy between disaster planning efforts and the actual response experience seems rather universal. That discrepancy is symbolized by the graffiti which predictably surfaces on many walls in post disaster locations - "First the earthquake, then the disaster." That contradiction is seldom reduced as a result of post disaster critiques, since the most usual conclusion is that the plan was adequate by the "people" did not follow it. Another explanation will be provided here. A more plausible explanation for failure is that most planning efforts adopt a number of erroneous assumptions which affect the outcome. Those assumptions are infrequently changed or modified by experience
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That there is a discrepancy between disaster planning efforts and the actual response experience seems rather universal. That discrepancy is symbolized by the graffiti which predictably surfaces on many walls in post disaster locations - "First the earthquake, then the disaster." That contradiction is seldom reduced as a result of post disaster critiques, since the most usual conclusion is that the plan was adequate by the "people" did not follow it. Another explanation will be provided here. A more plausible explanation for failure is that most planning efforts adopt a number of erroneous assumptions which affect the outcome. Those assumptions are infrequently changed or modified by experience
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