This project
focuses on the manner in which emergency
management
and crisis-relevant organizations in the City of
New York coordinated
with other responding organizations
and jurisdictions
to develop multi-organizational strategies
for managing
the World Trade Center Disaster. The project
uses the World
Trade Center attack and its aftermath as a
case study
to address longstanding issues in the disaster
research literature,
such as the relationship between planning,
emergence,
and improvisation in disaster response activities;
how multi-organizational
response networks develop and
function, and
how resilience is achieved in complex response
networks. Research
activities for this study consist of field
work and direct
observation in settings in which response and
recovery activities
are coordinated; interviewing; and
document
collection and analysis. "This study is being
conducted with
support from the National Science
Foundation,
the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake
Engineering
Research, and Public Entity Risk Institute."
Note
the addition of one funding agency.
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