Fantasy Documents
Fantasy Documents :
"These are catastrophic response plans whose purpose is to convince or reassure rather than to guide acutal activities. Large-scale evacuations are in many instances the principal means of preserving life, yet in very large events rely on fragmfented and poorlyunderstood capabilities and hopeful assumptions that may not be supported by actual resources. Evacuation, as a strategy, then takes on characteristics similar to Clarke's (1999) concept of 'fantasy documents'. Fantasy documents are created by organizations under circumstances where problems are complex and ambiguous, yet it is necessary to exert some type of control over the situation. Fantasy documents are not naked lies; rather they can be characterized as generous and unrealistic assumptions of how organizations will perform in a crisis (Perrow, 1999)". (Kendra, "Evacuating Large Urban Areas," 2008)
