Everything about Disaster response
Second phase of the disaster management cycle
Disaster response refers to the actions taken directly before, during, or immediately after a disaster. The objective is to save lives, ensure health and safety, and meet the subsistence needs of the people affected. It includes warning and evacuation, search and rescue, providing immediate assistance, assessing damage, continuing assistance, and the immediate restoration or construction of infrastructure. An example of this would be building provisional storm drains or diversion dams. Emergency response aims to provide immediate help to keep people alive, improve their health and support their morale. It can involve specific but limited aid, such as helping refugees with transport, temporary shelter, and food, or it can involve establishing semi-permanent settlements in camps and other locations. It may also involve initial repairs to damage to infrastructure, or diverting it. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Disaster responseA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Network Governance for Coordinated Disaster ResponseInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Campus Emergency PreparednessThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Disaster Planning and ResponseCited 190 times
- Go sideways: Humanitarian crisisA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Emergency sanitationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Disaster Planning and Response
Integrating Health Research into Disaster Response: The New NIH Disaster Research Response Program
Predicting Disaster Response Effectiveness
Resource Planning in Disaster Response
Liquid disaster and frigid response: Disaster and social exclusion
Satellite‐Aided Disaster Response
Complex disaster response framework to reduce urban disaster vulnerability
Disaster Rehabilitation Response Plan
🆕 Influential since 2022
Network Governance for Coordinated Disaster Response
Relationship Between Nursing Students’ Awareness of Disaster, Preparedness for Disaster, Willingness to Participate in Disaster Response, and Disaster Nursing Competency
Disaster literacy in disaster emergency response: a national qualitative study among nurses
Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response
Twitter-Based Disaster Response Using Machine Learning
📚 Books worth reading
Campus Emergency PreparednessMaureen Connolly · 2015
Advocacy after BhopalKim Fortun · 2001
Law and catastropheAustin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas · 2007- 📕Bencana industriHeru Prasetia · 2010
- 📕A decade of Pacific disaster aidNeil R. Britton, Bobbie Oliver · 1998
Implementation and World PoliticsAlexander Betts, Phil Orchard · 2014- 📕Summary reportLCG-DER. Secretariat, United Nations Development Programme · 2013
- 📕Building back better
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