Community crises : an exploratory comparison of the characteristics and consequences of disasters and riots.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Article (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 254Publication details: 1993Description: [12] pSubject: Social science literature tends to analyze disasters and riots together; to treat the two phenomena as involving but one relatively homogeneous type of social crisis. There have, however, been very few direct comparative examination of what research indicates about this matter. In this paper, findings on the similarities and differences between community disasters and riots are compared. The first focus of the two major themes revolves around what constitutes a community crisis. Thus, initially, community crises are conceptualized and then two different major types of such crises are distinguished, making a distinction between consensus-type crises, namely disasters and catastrophes, and conflict-type ones such as riots and civil disturbances. Second, it is then noted that such crisis phenomena manifest themselves behaviourally at different levels. Also discussed are the consequences, in the longer run, of the recovery phase as well as those consequences in emergency time or impact phase
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Bibliography: p. 76-78
Reprinted from Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management; 1993; Vol. 1, no. 2; p. 67-78
Social science literature tends to analyze disasters and riots together; to treat the two phenomena as involving but one relatively homogeneous type of social crisis. There have, however, been very few direct comparative examination of what research indicates about this matter. In this paper, findings on the similarities and differences between community disasters and riots are compared. The first focus of the two major themes revolves around what constitutes a community crisis. Thus, initially, community crises are conceptualized and then two different major types of such crises are distinguished, making a distinction between consensus-type crises, namely disasters and catastrophes, and conflict-type ones such as riots and civil disturbances. Second, it is then noted that such crisis phenomena manifest themselves behaviourally at different levels. Also discussed are the consequences, in the longer run, of the recovery phase as well as those consequences in emergency time or impact phase
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