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Developing Higher Education Programs in Emergency Management: Ghana's Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Ghana is highly vulnerable and threatened by several hazards and has sought ways of minimizing impacts of hazards events over time including demonstrating an interest in developing an emergency management training and an ...
Formation and Lifespans of Emergent Recovery Groups in Post-Katrina New Orleans
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, numerous groups emerged to address recovery related needs in Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes. The phenomenon of emergent groups is widely noted in the disaster literature, but there ...
Red River Flooding in Fargo: Organizational Learning Through Repeated Events
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This research is a case study of the spring flooding from the Red River in Fargo, North Dakota. The 1997 record flood level broke a long standing record. However, in the last 7 years there have been three additional major ...
Factors Explaining the Risk Perception of County Emergency Managers
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis attempted to explore how county emergency managers understand the risks most likely to manifest in their jurisdiction using an internet survey. This study addressed the following research questions: 1) What ...
Case Study of the Gold King Mine Spill
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
The Gold King Mine spill happened on August 5, 2015 near Silverton, Colorado when the abandoned mine was damaged during maintenance. This single, holistic exploratory case study uses document review and analysis to answer ...
An Evaluation of the Protective Action Decision Model using Data from a Train Derailment in Casselton, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This study was designed to answer the questions: a) What factors affected peoples' decision to evacuate or not evacuate after a train derailment and explosion in Casselton, ND; and b) What factors affected the amount of ...
A Comparative Study of Nuclear Power Risk Perceptions with Selected Technological Hazards
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
How people perceive risk or threats is important to many disciplines that seek to assist policy makers in developing policies, regulations and laws. Using the previous work of Slovic et al. (Fischhoff, Slovic, Lichtenstein, ...
Jurisdictional Leaders' Perception of Factors that Contribute to Hazard Mitigation Planning
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Recent disasters have demonstrated the importance of mitigating their potential impact to not only protect human lives, but to also reduce the seemingly unending cycle of repeated damages. The Disaster Mitigation Act of ...
Pursuit and Achievement of Emergency Management Program Accreditation
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
While accreditation of emergency management programs has been available for more than two decades, very few emergency management programs are accredited, particularly at the local level. This study examined what may ...
Organizational Characteristics of A Disaster Call Center ;\ Study of Information Management
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This study examines how information was managed in a call center during the
response to a major flood event on the Red River in the upper Midwest. The event affected
the cities of Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, ...