Response to Disaster Fact Versus Fiction and

Response to Disaster combines the original research of author Henry W. Fischer, III with the literature used today to describe behavioral and organizational challenges commonly experienced before, during, and after disasters. Actual problems are presented and compared to those often misperceived to occur, known as disaster mythology. Fischer examines case studies conducted during the post-impact and long-term recovery periods of major and minor disasters worldwide. He asserts that the role of the mass media assists in eliciting needed help with an effective response, but also perpetuates disaster mythology.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
What is a Disaster?	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Definition	p. 2
A Disaster Scale	p. 3
Frequency of Disaster Events	p. 12
Types of Disasters	p. 13
Disaster Time Periods	p. 15
Four Phases of Emergency Management	p. 16
Sociological Theory	p. 18
How Do We Come to Know What We Know About Disasters?	p. 26
Integration with Theory	p. 26
Who Does Disaster Research?	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Several U.S. Centers of Disaster Research	p. 32
Who's Who in Disaster Research?	p. 34
Several Key Journals in Disaster Research	p. 47
Behavioral Response to Disaster	p. 49
The Public Perception of How People Behave In a Disaster	p. 49
First Case Study: Evacuation Behavior: Why Do Some Evacuate, While Others Do Not? A Case Study of the Ephrata, Pennsylvania Evacuation	p. 57
The "Looting" Myth and the Reality	p. 66
Second Case Study: Terrorism & September 11, 2001: Does the "Behavioral Response to Disaster" Model Fit?	p. 69
Why We Believe the Disaster Mythology	p. 75
Mass Media as a Source of Information on Disasters	p. 75
First Case Study: Disastrous Fantasizing in the Print Media: How Disasters Have Been Portrayed in Newsmagazine Reporting over a Forty Year Period	p. 79
Second Case Study: Hurricane Gilbert: The Media's Creation of the Storm of the Century during September 1988	p. 87
Organizational Response to Disaster	p. 115
Emergency Organizations	p. 116
First Case Study: LEMA Myth Survey: Has Anything Changed in 20 Years? What the Professionals Believe & the Role of Experience	p. 119
Second Case Study: Media's Impact on EOC Response: EOC Preoccupation with Media: Dorothy's Experience	p. 130
Third Case Study: The Role of Education & Experience in Mitigation Planning	p. 142
Fourth Case Study: Earthquake Hazard Risk Reduction & Seismic Vulnerability: Low Risk + No Experience with An Agent = No Mitigation	p. 156
Fifth Case Study: The 2004 Boxing Day South Asian Tsunami: Mass Fatalities Management-Observations of the Field Team in Thailand	p. 175
Sixth Case Study: The Emergency Management Response To Hurricane Katrina: As Told by the First Responders-A Case Study of What Went Wrong & Recommendations for the Future	p. 182
Future Research Needs	p. 199
Disaster Historians & Disaster Janitors	p. 199
Necessary Research Advances	p. 200
New Disaster Agents-Old Socio-Political Challenges	p. 218
Author's Final Note	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 229
About the Author	p. 239
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