Community Conditions in a Disaster Environment
Community Conditions in a Disaster Environment :
"disasters not only create new tasks but actually task subsystems, and these subsystems must be coordinated with one another if the response is to be effective. This requires the mobilization of resources -- particularly manpower, economic and loyalties. When this mobilization has occurred a new community structure has come into being. However, all this occurs under conditions characterized by the following:. (1) uncertainty, (2) urgency, (3) the development of an emergency consensus, (4) expansion of the citizenship role, (5) convergence, and (6) the deemphasis of contractual and impersonal relationships". (Dynes, Quarantelli, and Kreps, A Perspective on Disaster Planning, 1981 (3rd Ed.), pp. 66-67)
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