Assessing disaster preparedness planning: a set of criteria and their applicability to developing countries.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Article (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 197Publication details: 1988Description: 23p., 11 refsReport number: AcademicSubject: Disaster preparednessSubject: Emergency planningSubject: To assess, in any intelligent way, preparedness planning for disasters requires asking the question : What is good planning? It would be possible to advance some ideal version of what should be, but we prefer to root our answers to the questions in the empirical research undertaken by social and behavioural scientists in the last three decades. 1/ Part of this research is particularly strong on the community and organizational aspects of disaster planning. 2/ The research cuts across natural and technological disaster agents, but is somewhat stronger on studies done in developed countries than in developing countries. There is, therefore, an issue on the question of how much the research findings can be extrapolated to all kinds of societies. The matter is addressed towards the end of the paper
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Reprint from Regional Development Dialogue; Spring 1988; Vol 9 No 1;
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Disaster preparedness
Emergency planning
To assess, in any intelligent way, preparedness planning for disasters requires asking the question : What is good planning? It would be possible to advance some ideal version of what should be, but we prefer to root our answers to the questions in the empirical research undertaken by social and behavioural scientists in the last three decades. 1/ Part of this research is particularly strong on the community and organizational aspects of disaster planning. 2/ The research cuts across natural and technological disaster agents, but is somewhat stronger on studies done in developed countries than in developing countries. There is, therefore, an issue on the question of how much the research findings can be extrapolated to all kinds of societies. The matter is addressed towards the end of the paper
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