Some needed cross-cultural studies of disaster behavior.
Material type: TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1979Description: 23p., 47 refsReport number: Academic; DRC-ARTICLE-123Subject: This paper first briefly indicates the need and the value of doing cross-cultural research on disasters and details something about the nature of the studies so far undertaken, implying thereby some of their limitations. The second half of the paper elaborates a framework which might be used to systematize cross cultural studies of disasters, suggests some substantive research priorities and indicates in what ways such work might be organized. This paper, therefore, is a review of the state-of-the-art and a programmatic paper and neither develops theory nor presents research findings on the social and behavioral aspects of natural and technological disastersItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reprinted from Disasters (1979); Vol 3; No 3; pp307-314
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This paper first briefly indicates the need and the value of doing cross-cultural research on disasters and details something about the nature of the studies so far undertaken, implying thereby some of their limitations. The second half of the paper elaborates a framework which might be used to systematize cross cultural studies of disasters, suggests some substantive research priorities and indicates in what ways such work might be organized. This paper, therefore, is a review of the state-of-the-art and a programmatic paper and neither develops theory nor presents research findings on the social and behavioral aspects of natural and technological disasters
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