Different types of organizations in disaster responses and their operational problems.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Preliminary paper (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 41Publication details: 1977Description: 34p., 41 refsReport number: Academic; DRC-PP-41Subject(s): Subject: This paper describes the different kinds of organized groups which operate in disasters and analyze the kinds of operational problems they typically encounter. The first part of the paper sets forth a typology of organized behavior in mass emergencies. The changed conditions in disaster contexts and how this affects the activities of groups and organizations are examined in the last part of the paper
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This paper combines, expands, extends and updates two earlier publications by the same authors, namely Organization under stress, E.L. Quarantelli, Symposium on Emergency Operations, ed. by Robert Brictson (Santa Monica: System Development Corporation, 1966): 3-19 and Operational Problems of Organizations in Disasters, E. L. Quarantelli and Russell R. Dynes, 1967 Emergency Operations Symposium, ed. by Robert Brictson (Santa Monica: System Development Corp[oration, 1967): pp151-175
This paper describes the different kinds of organized groups which operate in disasters and analyze the kinds of operational problems they typically encounter. The first part of the paper sets forth a typology of organized behavior in mass emergencies. The changed conditions in disaster contexts and how this affects the activities of groups and organizations are examined in the last part of the paper
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