Citizen groups and hazardous waste: their careers and conditions for emergence.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Article (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 203Publication details: 1988Description: 9p., 11 refsReport number: AcademicSubject: Disaster researchSubject: Disaster responseSubject: Emergent Citizen GroupsSubject: Group dynamicsSubject: Organizational behaviorSubject: This paper summarizes field research findings from a larger study of the careers of and conditions for emergent citizen groups which develop either to prepare for and/or recover from actual disasters and potential threats. Little difference was found for groups oriented to hazardous waste sites and other risks. After stating in propositional form the findings about career patterns (including origins, changes in stabilities, the formalization process and conflict aspects) and specific generating conditions, the paper presents an explanatory analytical model about the general emergence of citizen groups in the United States
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Disaster research
Disaster response
Emergent Citizen Groups
Group dynamics
Organizational behavior
This paper summarizes field research findings from a larger study of the careers of and conditions for emergent citizen groups which develop either to prepare for and/or recover from actual disasters and potential threats. Little difference was found for groups oriented to hazardous waste sites and other risks. After stating in propositional form the findings about career patterns (including origins, changes in stabilities, the formalization process and conflict aspects) and specific generating conditions, the paper presents an explanatory analytical model about the general emergence of citizen groups in the United States
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