Abstract:

Are disasters for planning purposes best approached generically or in agent specific terms? our mostly research based answer is that the generic approach is more valid although this does not mean there are no meaningful differences along other dimensions between disasters.  We ask, whatever the distinctions that are made, whether they are equally applicable across all phases of the disaster planning cycle, namely, mitigation or prevention, emergency preparedness, emergency response, and recovery?  Our concluding discussion takes the position that it appears the generic approach is clearly best applicable to the emergency time phases, somewhat less so for the mitigation phase with recovery falling in somewhat between the others.

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