Converting disaster scholarship into effective disaster management.
Material type: TextLanguage: ENG Series: Preliminary paper (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 117Publication details: 1987Description: 53p., no refsReport number: AcademicSubject: A partly edited transcription of a talk given during the Social Science and Disaster management Seminar at the Australian Counter Disaster College, Mt. Macedon, Australia, 8 August, 1986. Professor Quarantelli addressed ACDC on the subject of effective planning for or management of disasters. In the aftermath of the nuclear accidents in thhe United States and Chernobyl, he believes that the technical problems were less of a factor than the failure to follow adequate rules and inspections, poor decisions and policies were the essence of these accidents. The consquences of such disasters may be irreversible, therefore managers must learn to plan for worse events than previously experienced and not be bound by the pastItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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A partly edited transcription of a talk given during the Social Science and Disaster management Seminar at the Australian Counter Disaster College, Mt. Macedon, Australia, 8 August, 1986. Professor Quarantelli addressed ACDC on the subject of effective planning for or management of disasters. In the aftermath of the nuclear accidents in thhe United States and Chernobyl, he believes that the technical problems were less of a factor than the failure to follow adequate rules and inspections, poor decisions and policies were the essence of these accidents. The consquences of such disasters may be irreversible, therefore managers must learn to plan for worse events than previously experienced and not be bound by the past
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