Studies in disaster response and planning.

By:

Quarantelli, E. L. (Enrico Louis), 1924-

Contributor(s):

Ohio State University. Research Foundation

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1979Description: 62pReport number: RF-PROJECT-760072/783395Subject: Under the general rubric of disaster studies and planning, the disaster research center (drc) of the ohio state university conducted a series of studies for the defense civil preparedness agency (formerly the office of civil defense) from 1972 through 1978 with most of the actual work being done during 1972-1975. Three major pieces of work were undertaken: (1)a study of the role of local civil defense in disaster planning; (2)a study of the use of local emergency operating centers (eocs) in disasters; (3)a study of the implementation of disaster planning. Different sets of data and field operations were used to obtain information for the studies. For the first study most of the data was derived from research in 12 communities around the country. Data for the other two pieces of research was collected from 14 new field studies as well as by reexamining previously collected data in the drc files .550.

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Under the general rubric of disaster studies and planning, the disaster research center (drc) of the ohio state university conducted a series of studies for the defense civil preparedness agency (formerly the office of civil defense) from 1972 through 1978 with most of the actual work being done during 1972-1975. Three major pieces of work were undertaken: (1)a study of the role of local civil defense in disaster planning; (2)a study of the use of local emergency operating centers (eocs) in disasters; (3)a study of the implementation of disaster planning. Different sets of data and field operations were used to obtain information for the studies. For the first study most of the data was derived from research in 12 communities around the country. Data for the other two pieces of research was collected from 14 new field studies as well as by reexamining previously collected data in the drc files .550.

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