Browsing Emergency Management Doctoral Work by Issue Date
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The Simultaneous Evacuation of a Midwestern Community's Multiple Healthcare Facilities during a Major Flood Event: A Study in Decision-Making and Implementation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Natural disasters are a part of the ecological system, so they are beyond human control. To reduce devastating effects, researchers in Emergency Management seek to understand the causes and cycles of natural disasters so ... -
Coordination in Disaster Recovery: Implications for Policy and Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Disaster scholarship and recent disaster policy in the United States have suggested that coordination of efforts in the disaster recovery process will allow impacted jurisdictions to maximize positive recovery outcomes. ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
The Context and Concept of Individual and Household Preparedness: The Case of Fako Division in Cameroon
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Almost every day, we see and hear about disasters impacting individuals and households in communities worldwide. Impacts experienced include loss of life and injury, loss of property, and more. Disasters are often devastating ... -
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 ... -
A Foundation for Factors that Explain Volunteer Engagement in Response and Recovery: The Case of Flooding in East Texas 2016
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Volunteers are important contributors to response and recovery. Little is known about their engagement, particularly in terms of comparing the engagement of response volunteers to recovery volunteers. This study sought to ... -
The Role of the County Emergency Manager in Disaster Mitigation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Scholarship on disasters in the United States would suggest that emergency managers should play a role in hazard mitigation. Yet, little empirical research has investigated precisely what role or roles emergency managers ... -
The Role of the County Emergency Manager in Disaster Mitigation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Scholarship on disasters in the United States would suggest that emergency managers should play a role in hazard mitigation. Yet, little empirical research has investigated precisely what role or roles emergency managers ... -
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 ...