Add to ORKGSeveral years ago, the Disaster Research Center (DRC) initiated and undertook an extensive sociological study of community based citizen groups which emerged either to prepare for and/or recover from actual disasters and potential threats. The research extended over a four-year period and focused on local citizen groups who came into being outside of any immediate emergency period and who were oriented to a full range of hazards from floods and hurricanes to nuclear and chemical plants and hazardous waste sites. In-depth interviewing was undertaken of members of over 50 such groups around the United States. Local organizational and community statistical and documentary data were also collected to supplement the interview data. A te...
In response to the human health threats stemming from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, inter-disciplinar...
Emergency response agencies commonly focus on how hard infrastructure will interact with extreme cli...
Systematic social science disaster research began in the 1950s. The Disaster Research Center (DRC),...
Several years ago, the Disaster Research Center (DRC) initiated and undertook an extensive sociologi...
An increasingly noticeable feature of American society is the presence of newly formed groups of pri...
The formation of citizen groups to deal with actual or potential adverse situations has been a growi...
Citizen response to adverse or potentially adverse situations has been a growing phenomenon since th...
By almost any criteria the threat of sudden chemical disasters is on the increase. However, while th...
In our science-intensive culture and society, citizens find it increasingly difficult to participate...
The emergence of citizens to form groups for any number of reasons or causes is salient feature of A...
In our science-intensive culture and society, citizens find it increasingly difficult to participate...
This paper explores the dynamics of emergent citizen groups, or ECGs as we shall call them in potent...
This is a report summarizing a four-year project running from late 1977 through late 1981. As such,...
views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily of NSF. Some of the research wa
Emergency response agencies commonly focus on how hard infrastructure will interact with extreme cli...
In response to the human health threats stemming from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, inter-disciplinar...
Emergency response agencies commonly focus on how hard infrastructure will interact with extreme cli...
Systematic social science disaster research began in the 1950s. The Disaster Research Center (DRC),...
Several years ago, the Disaster Research Center (DRC) initiated and undertook an extensive sociologi...
An increasingly noticeable feature of American society is the presence of newly formed groups of pri...
The formation of citizen groups to deal with actual or potential adverse situations has been a growi...
Citizen response to adverse or potentially adverse situations has been a growing phenomenon since th...
By almost any criteria the threat of sudden chemical disasters is on the increase. However, while th...
In our science-intensive culture and society, citizens find it increasingly difficult to participate...
The emergence of citizens to form groups for any number of reasons or causes is salient feature of A...
In our science-intensive culture and society, citizens find it increasingly difficult to participate...
This paper explores the dynamics of emergent citizen groups, or ECGs as we shall call them in potent...
This is a report summarizing a four-year project running from late 1977 through late 1981. As such,...
views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily of NSF. Some of the research wa
Emergency response agencies commonly focus on how hard infrastructure will interact with extreme cli...
In response to the human health threats stemming from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, inter-disciplinar...
Emergency response agencies commonly focus on how hard infrastructure will interact with extreme cli...
Systematic social science disaster research began in the 1950s. The Disaster Research Center (DRC),...