By Joshua Gilbert – Executive Summary – Spontaneous volunteers who conducted search and rescue (SAR) in the aftermath of major hurricanes, such as Katrina in 2005, Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Florence and Michael in 2018, are changing the …
This article reports on an exploratory study on how senior military leaders perceive leadership during a crisis-disaster response in the U.S. Homeland, and the developmental experiences and activities they believe support effective leadership during highly complex civil support operations.
By William A. Denny
By Sean Card – Executive Summary – In 2017, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator testified on Capitol Hill that America is a nation unprepared for disasters.[1] The current American emergency management structure exhibits an overreliance on federal disaster …
Every Community an Island: Preparing for Catastrophic Disasters →
By George Renteria – Executive Summary – This thesis explores the topic of access management and its relationship to U.S. incident management policies and practices. Specifically, it examines how the implementation of statewide access programs might better integrate private sector …
Statewide Access Programs: A Key Component to Eliminating the Post-Disaster Access Challenge →
By Jill Barnes – Executive Summary – This thesis establishes a connection between community disaster resilience (CDR) and social identity theory (SIT) using a qualitative document analysis and posits that the connection can improve disaster outcomes. The association between the …
By Alana Tornello – Executive Summary – Recovery is the disaster after the disaster. The claim has been whispered around the proverbial campfires of emergency management (EM) for decades.[1] Scholars, practitioners, and survivors provide evidence to support this claim, particularly …
Palin develops fictional characters amalgamated from interviews and real-world experiences to describe varying supply chain concepts and effects during the post-Maria recovery. The result is an engaging, novel-like narrative that highlights the importance of post-disaster supply-chain resilience.
Reviewed by Kristopher Thornburg
By Kevin McMahan – Executive Summary – Disasters in the form of weather patterns, earthquakes, and human-made catastrophes have become more frequent and severe in recent years. These events have a direct economic impact on communities. The losses incurred, in …
Building Community Capacity and Resilience through Improvements in Economic Recovery →
By Kristopher Thornburg – Executive Summary – The 2017 hurricanes in the southern United States provided an impetus for wider social technology use than during previous disaster responses. Hurricane survivors rapidly turned to social media for help while physically unaffected …
By Eric Soucie – Executive Summary – Domestic disaster relief in the United States has undergone various changes in terms of public expectations, legal authorities, and operational approaches over the last several decades. Some have argued that this trend has …
The God Protocol: In Search of a Common Ethical Approach to Disaster Response →
