V. Preliminary Papers

64. The Study of Disaster Movies: Research Problems, Findings, and Implications.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1980. (version of Article # 176). 3.6MB 

65. A Response to the Description and Evaluation of the DRC Work in the Disaster Area.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1980. (version of Article # 146).  2.3MB

97. Disaster: An Entry for an Italian Dictionary of Sociology.  E. L. Quarantelli and Dennis Wenger, 1985. (English language version of Article # 193 in Italian)   1.9MB 

101. The Need for Planning, Training, and Policy on Emergency Preparedness.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1985. (longer version of Article # 184)

126. Local Emergency Management Agencies: Research Findings on their Progress and Problems in the Last Two Decades.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1988. 2.6MB 

138. How Individuals and Groups React During Disasters: Planning and Managing Implications for EMS Delivery.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1989.  (English version of Article #230 in Spanish). 94kb 

151. A Preliminary Statement on the Different Worlds of Science and Mass Communication: Implications for Information Flow Between Them.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1990. (longer version of Article #258.) 2.6MB 

165. Social Responses to the Tangshan Earthquake.  Jinfang Li, 1991.  25kb 

175. 'They Could See Stars from Their Beds': The Plight of the Rural Poor in the Aftermath of Hurricane Hugo.  Kristen S. Miller and Catherine Simile, 1992.  41kb

188. Los Angeles 1992: First Urban Unrest of the 21st Century.  Kathleen J. Tierney, 1993. 3.2MB

190. Socio-Economic Aspects of Hazard Mitigation.  Kathleen J. Tierney, 1993. (English version of Article #277 in Spanish)2.0MB

192. Technological and Natural Disasters and Ecological Problems: Similarities and Differences in Planning For and Managing Them.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1993. (same as Article #262 but with references) 83kb

193. Disaster Preparedness and Response: Research Findings and Guidance from the Social Science Literature.  Kathleen J. Tierney, 1993.  3.8MB

195. Disasters and Social Change: Consequences for Community Construct and Affect.  Joanne M. Nigg and Kathleen J. Tierney, 1993.  3.8MB

198. Social Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe: Some Results of Sociological Research.  Alla V. Mozgovaya, 1993.  20kb

201. Situational Altruism: Toward An Explanation of Pathologies in Disaster Assistance.  Russell R. Dynes, 1994. 2.5MB

203. Patterns of Property Damage in the Los Angeles Unrest.  Kathleen J. Tierney, Lisa Reshaur and David Ames, 1994. 1.8MB

204. Sociology's Unique Contributions to the Study of Risk.  Kathleen J. Tierney, 1994.  2.5MB

214. Network Cohesiveness Among Oil Spill Responders in the Delaware Bay: A Multi- Dimensional Scaling Analysis.  Stephanie Willson and James M. Dahlhamer, 1994. 1.3MB

216. An Empirical Investigation of Rumoring: Anticipating Disaster Under Conditions of Uncertainty.  James M. Dahlhamer and Joanne M. Nigg, 1994. 1.5MB

217. Event and Consequence Vulnerability: Effects on The Disaster Recovery Process.  Kristen Miller and Joanne M. Nigg, 1994.  53kb

218. Contextual Effects on Responsibility Judgments.  Valerie P. Hans, Joanne M. Nigg and Melvin J. D'Souza, 1994. 1.6MB

221. Disasters Are Different:  Therefore Planning For and Managing Them Requires Innovative As Well As Traditional Behaviors.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1995.

222. Loan Request Outcomes in the U.S. Small Business Administration Business Disaster Loan Program.  James M. Dahlhamer, 1995. 2.6MB

224. Determinants of Business Disaster Preparedness in Two U.S. Metropolitan Areas.  James M. Dahlhamer and Melvin J. D'Souza, 1995. 1.9MB

227. Disaster Planning, Emergency Management, and Civil Protection: The Historical Development and Current Characteristics of Organized Efforts to Prevent and To Respond To Disasters.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1995. 105kb

228. Draft Of A Sociological Disaster Research Agenda For the Future: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Issues.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1995. 124kb

230. Impacts of Recent U.S. Disasters On Businesses: The 1993 Midwest Floods and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.  Kathleen J. Tierney, 1995. 117kb

231. An Examination of Gender Roles In Crowds.  Gary R. Webb, David Neal and Brenda Phillips, 1995. 1.6MB

232. Emergency Preparedness Policy-Making: A Comparative Analysis Between California and Italy.  Brunetta Baldi, 1995. 4.0MB

236. Institutional Change vs. Institutional Persistence? The Transformation of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Since Three Mile Island.  Brunetta Baldi, 1995. 4.5MB

238. The Social Impacts of Physical Processes:  How Do We Manage What We Can't Control?  Joanne M. Nigg, 1996.  25kb

240. Businesses and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake:  An Analysis of Pre- and Post-Disaster Preparedness.   James M. Dahlhamer and Lisa Reshaur, 1996. 265kb

243. Winners and Losers:  Predicting Business Disaster Recovery Outcomes Following the Northridge Earthquake.   James M. Dahlhamer and Kathleen J. Tierney, 1996.  73kb 

244. Policy Issues for Post-Disaster Mitigation:  The Need For a Process.   Joanne M. Nigg, 1996. 785kb

245. The Social Impacts of Extreme Physical Events.   Joanne M. Nigg, 1996. 25kb

246. Policy Issues for Post-Disaster Mitigation: The Need for a Process.  Joanne M. Nigg, 1996. 108kb

247. Sociological Theories and Disaster Studies.  Robert A. Stallings, 1997.

250. Emergency Response Following The 1994 Northridge Earthquake: Intergovernmental Coordination Issues.   Joanne M. Nigg, 1997. 34kb

251. Comments on the Second Assessment of Research and Applications on Natural Hazards.  Russell R. Dynes, 1997. 198kb

253. Research Overview: Emergency Response.  Kathleen J. Tierney, 1997. 922kb

254. The Disaster Research Center (DRC) Field Studies of Organized Behavior in the Crisis Time Period of Disasters.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1997. 65kb

255. The Lisbon Earthquake on 1755: Contested Meanings of the First Modern Disaster.   Russell R. Dynes, 1997  77kb

258. Financial Crises in the Context of Disaster Theory: Recent U.S. Case Studies.   Patrick Dynes and Russell Dynes, 1997.   1.6MB

260. Emergency Response: Lessons Learned from the Kobe Earthquake.   Kathleen J. Tierney and James D. Goltz, 1997. 39kb

265. Noah and Disaster Planning:  The Cultural Significance of The Flood Story.   Russell R. Dynes, 1998. 67kb

267. The Popular Culture of Disaster: What is It and Why is it Important?  Gary R. Webb, 1998. 285kb

268. Major Criteria for Judging Disaster Planning and Managing Their Applicability in Development Societies.   E. L. Quarantelli, 1998. 125kb

271. Hurricane Threat and Evacuation Intentions: An Analysis of Risk Perception, Preparedness, Social Influences, and Resources.   Jasmin K. Riad and F. H. Norris, 1998. 95kb

272. Seismic Waves in Intellectual Currents: The Uses of the Lisbon Earthquake in 18thCentury European Thought.   Russell R. Dynes, 1998. 68kb

273. The Field Turns Fifty: Social Change and the Practice of Disaster Field Work.   Kathleen Tierney, 1998.81kb

275. The Issuance of Earthquake "Predictions": Scientific Approaches and Public Policy Strategies.  Joanne M. Nigg, 1998. 1.7MB

276. The Psychology of Evacuation and the Design of Policy J. K. Riad, W. L. Waugh and F. H. Norris, 1998.

277. Individual and Organizational Response to Natural Disasters and Other Crisis Events: The Continuing Value of the DRC Typology.   Gary R. Webb, 1999. 1.2MB

278. Cross-Border Issues in Disaster Response.  Tricia Wachtendorf, 1999.

280. Disaster Related Social Behavior: Summary of 50 Years of Research Findings.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1999. 38kb

281. Businesses and Disasters: Empirical Patterns and Unanswered Questions.   Gary R. Webb, Kathleen J. Tierney and James M. Dahlhamer, 1999. 2.1MB

282. Predicting Business Financial Losses in the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge Earthquakes:  Implications for Loss Estimation Research.  James M. Dahlhamer, Gary R. Webb and Kathleen J. Tierney, 1999.

283. The Sociology of Panic.   E. L. Quarantelli, 1999. 26kb

284. Restoration Activities Following the Izmit, Turkey Earthquake of August 17, 1999.  Gary R. Webb, 1999. 2.2MB

286. The Disaster Recovery Process: What We Know And Do Not Know From Research.  E. L. Quarantelli, 1999. 73kb

287. Lessons Learned From the Popular Culture of Disaster.  Tricia Wachtendorf, 1999.

289. Role Improvising Under Conditions of Uncertainty: A Classification of Types Gary R. Webb, Michael Beverly, Megan McMichael, James Noon and Tabitha Patterson, 1999. 370kb

290. Exploring the Popular Culture of Disaster.   Tricia Wachtendorf, 1999.  16kb

291. Stability and Change in Stress, Resources, and Psychological Distress Following Natural Disaster:  Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Hurricane Andrew.  F. H. Norris, J. L. Perilla, J. K. Riad, K. Kaniasty and E. Lavizzo, 1999. 

292. Predicting Long-Term Business Recovery From Disaster: A Comparison of the Loma Prieta Earthquake and Hurricane Andrew.  Gary R. Webb, Kathleen J. Tierney and James M. Dahlhamer, 1999.  2.0MB

294. The Dialogue Between Voltaire and Rousseau on the Lisbon Earthquake: The Emergence of A Social Science View.   Russell R. Dynes, 1999. (updates pp. #252).  196kb

295. On Disasters and Popular Culture.  Russell Dynes, 2000.

296.  Public Support and Priorities for Seismic Rehabilitation in the East Bay Region of Northern California  Kathleen J. Tierney, 2000.

298.  Another Selected Look at Future Social Crises:  Some Aspects of Which We Can Already See in the Present   E.L. Quarantelli, 2000.

299.  Some Comments On The Research Enterprise.   Russell R. Dynes, 2000

300.  Governmental Systems For Disaster Management  Russell R. Dynes, 2000.

301.  Disaster Planning, Emergency Management and Civil Protection: The Historical Development of Organized Efforts to Plan for and to Respond to Disasters.   E.L. Quarantelli, 2000.

304.  Emergencies, Disaster and Catastrophes Are Different Phenomena.   E.L. Quarantelli, 2000.

305.  Controversy and Consensus in Disaster Mental Health Research.   Kathleen J. Tierney, 2000.

306.  Building Community Partnerships Toward a National Mitigation Effort: Inter-organizational Collaboration in the Project Impact Initiative. Tricia Wachtendorf, 2000.

307. Testing Shibutani’s Prediction of Information Seeking Behavior in Rumor. B.E. Aguirre and Kathleen J. Tierney, 2001.

309. A Regulationist Approach to the Occupational Status of Navigation Officers in the U.S. Merchant Marine. James M. Kendra, 2001.

312. Suggestions for Canadian Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Disaster Mitigation.   Tricia Wachtendorf, 2001.

313. Collective Behavior in the September 11, 2001 Evacuation of the World Trade Center.   Rory Connell, 2001.

315. From Ground Zero to Ground Hero: Status Appropriation and the FDNY.   Brian Monahan and Carol Gregory, 2001.

316. Rebel Food...Renegade Supplies: Convergence After the World Trade Center Attack   James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf, 2001.

317.  A Test of Culture Opposition’s Power Grid.   B.E. Aguirre, 2001.

318.  Elements of Community Resilience in the World Trade Center Attack. James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf, 2001.

319.  A Conceptual Framework for Collective Behavior and Action and its Application to U.S. Student Riots in the 1990s.  B.E. Aguirre, 2001.

321.  Creativity in Emergency Response After the World Trade Center Attack. James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf, 2002.

322.  Demographics and Experiences as Factors of Earthquake Risk Perceptions.  Tricia Wachtendorf and Xiewen Sheng, 2002.

323.  Information Seeking Behavior in Collective Surges: Testing Alternative Collective Behavior Formulations.  B. E. Aguirre, 2002.

324.  Disaster and Development, Again.  Russell R. Dynes, 2002.

325.  The Protection of Cultural Properties: The Neglected Social Science Perspective and Other Questions and Issues That Ought To Be Considered. E. L. Quarantelli, 2002.

326.  Finding Order in Disorder: Continuities in the 9/11 Response.  Russell R. Dynes, 2002.   

327.  The Importance of Social Capital in Disaster Response.  Russell R. Dynes, 2002.

328.  Predicting Long-Term Business Recovery from Disaster: A Comparison of the Loma Prieta Earthquake and Hurricane Andrew.  Gary R. Webb, Kathleen J. Tierney, and James M. Dahlhamer, 2003. (An updated version of Preliminary Paper #292)
 
329.  Conceptualizing and Measuring Organizational and Community Resilience: Lessons from the Emergency Response Following the September 11, 2001 Attack on the World Trade Center.  Kathleen J. Tierney, 2003.

330.  Los Desastres en Latinoamerica: Vulnerabilidad y Resistencia.  B. E. Aguirre, 2003.

331.  Perceptions on Acceptable Levels of Performance of Different Elements in the Built Environment in the Event of a Major Earthquake. Victor Argothy 2003.

332. Programs and Policies That Ought to Be Implemented For Coping With Future Disasters.  E. L. Quarantell, 2003.

333. The Lisbon Earthquake in 1755: The First Modern Disaster. Russell R. Dynes, 2003. (An updated version of Preliminary Paper #255)

334. Homeland Security Warnings: Lessons Learned and Unlearned. B. E. Aguirre, 2003.

335. Framing Volunteerism in a Consensus Crisis: Mass Media Coverage of Volunteers in the 9/11 Response.  Victor Argothy, 2003

336. A Half Century of Social Science Disaster Research: Selected Major Findings and Their Applicability. E. L. Quarantelli, 2003.

337. The Role of Science, Technology, and the Media in the Communication of Risk and Warnings: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Havidan Rodriguez and Walter Diaz, 2004.

338. Disaster Research in the Social Sciences: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Future Trajectories. Havidan Rodriguez, Tricia Wachtendorf, and Carla Russel, 2004.

339. A Critical Review of Emergency Evacuation Simulation Models. Gabriel Santos and Benigno E. Aguirre, 2004

340. Disaster in Cuba. B. E. Aguirre, 2004.

341. The 1999 Floods in Veracruz and the Paradigm of Vulnerability. B. E. Aguirre, 2004.

342 Homeland Security Warnings: Lessons Learned and Unlearned. Benigno E. Aguirre, 2004.