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Human Side of Disasters

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

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Human Side of Disasters

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  1. Human Side of Disasters Dr. Drabek’s Work as a Guide: HUMAN SIDE OF DISASTER & Social Dimension of Disasters

  2. 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?

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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?

  7. Social DimensionsIV • What Works in Risk Communication? • Future Trends in Emergency Management • Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Emergency Management • Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Users

  8. 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

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