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• [email protected]• Adjunct Faculty, University of Nevada at Las
Vegas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Istanbul Technical University
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