Organisations in Disaster |
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Authors: | David King |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University, Townville, Q4811, Australia |
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Abstract: | In the event of a disaster, communities become the targets of specialist organisations and a concentration of activities.
The complex unstructured activities and routines of daily life are disrupted and even totally overwhelmed by a single catastrophic
event that requires a redirection of priorities, resources and people to deal with all aspects of the disaster impact as rapidly
as possible. The whole community must be mobilised to restore functions and meet needs, to return to the normality of the
pre-disaster state. This latter purpose is least likely to be achieved, as the destroyed community can seldom rebuild to the
same complex, but randomly haphazard state that existed before the disaster. The mobilisation of the whole community to the
single purpose of recovery requires a high level of organisation. Response to a disaster demands that there be purposeful
organisations ready to provide leadership and action. Emergency management is predicated for the existence of such purposeful
organisations. However, while organisations are at the core of emergency management response and recovery, they are by no
means simple or singular. Disaster generates a plethora of organisations, which interact with the community rather than simply
organising disaster response. The community also organises itself, re-assigning priorities and using existing organisations
and networks. |
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Keywords: | Community Recovery and mitigation NGOs Emergency management |
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