Human Side of Disasters

Dr. Drabek’s Work as a Guide:

HUMAN SIDE OF DISASTER &

Social Dimension of Disasters

Human Side

• Experiences, Problems and Approach• Hear That Siren?• It Can’t Be Done• Shall We Leave?• Why Me?• Volunteers? You Bet!• Organized Disorganization• Life in a Fishbowl• What About My Psyche?• What Must Be Done?

Social Dimension

• What Is a Disaster?• History of Sociological Research on

Disasters• Overview of Disasters and Hazards in the

U.S.A.• Today Terrorism: Changing Threat • Perceptions and Response Preparedness • All-Hazards Emergency Management • Disaster Mythology/Sources of Disaster

Myths

Social Dimension Continued

• Public Warning Responses • Community Evacuation Behavior• Building Effective Warning Systems• Disaster Research Methods • Constructing Theoretical Models • Victim Responses to Disaster • Non-Victim Responses to Disaster • Understanding Looting Behavior• Mid-Term Emergent Social Groups in Disaster

Organizational Responses to Disaster•

Social Dimension Continued II

• Crisis Decision Making • Emergent Multi-organizational Networks• Case Study Presentations on Community

Responses to Disaster • Disaster Recovery and Community Change• Disaster Inequalities• Tourism and Disaster: Preparedness, Responses,

and Impacts Disaster Stress Media in Disaster•

• Disaster Planning Myths

Social DimensionIII

• Strategic Planning by Local Emergency Managers

• Implementing Emergency Management Information Technology

• Disaster Mitigation• Exercise • Exercise Analysis • Disaster Denial and Disaster Preparedness

Behavior • Field Trips = ARC, FEMA, LEMA, SEMA• What Works in Risk Communication?

Social DimensionsIV

• What Works in Risk Communication?

• Future Trends in Emergency Management

• Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Emergency Management

• Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Users

Contact Information

• Kay C. Goss, CEM®• Director of Emergency Management• SRA International• 703-284-6050• Kay_goss@sra.com• Adjunct Faculty, University of Nevada at Las

Vegas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Istanbul Technical University