Power structure and group mobilization following disaster : a case study.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: MAR 1983Description: 14 pSubject: Group mobilization following natural disaster is related to the predisaster structure of community power. A case study of the Flood Recovery Task Force (FRTF) formed in Northeastern Pennsylvania following the 1972 recovery Tropical Storm Agnes flood, found mobilization to be anchored in the civic sector of a bifurcated power structure. The study reinforces the importance of preexisting, integrative structures to group mobilization and documents the essentially routine political nature of FRTF activity. It establishes the role of well-organized status and economic influentials in disaster recovery.
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Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 302.33 WOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005276268 |
Includes bibliographical references
Reprinted from Social Science Quarterly; March 1983; Vol. 64, no. 1; p. 97-110
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Group mobilization following natural disaster is related to the predisaster structure of community power. A case study of the Flood Recovery Task Force (FRTF) formed in Northeastern Pennsylvania following the 1972 recovery Tropical Storm Agnes flood, found mobilization to be anchored in the civic sector of a bifurcated power structure. The study reinforces the importance of preexisting, integrative structures to group mobilization and documents the essentially routine political nature of FRTF activity. It establishes the role of well-organized status and economic influentials in disaster recovery.
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