Human System Responses to Disaster: An Inventory of Sociological Findings

1. The Logic of the Inventory.- The Legacy of the Past.- What Is a Disaster?.- The Search Process.- A Conceptual Taxonomy.- Limitations and Risks.- An Overview.- Selected Bibliography.- 2. Planning.- IA. Individual System Level.- IA1. Event Variation.- IA2. Public Acceptance of Planning.- I A3. Public Preparation.- IA4. Public Belief in Disaster Myths.- IIA. Group System Level.- IIA1. Life Cycles of Emergent Groups.- IIA2. Family Disaster Planning.- IIA3. Family Willingness to Participate in Preparedness Activities.- IIA4. Looting Fears.- III A. Organizational System Level.- IIIA1. General Principles.- IIIA2. Local Emergency Management-Civil Defense Agencies.- III A3. Hospital-Medical Units.- III A4. First Responders.- IIIA5. Mental Health Agencies.- IIIA6. Media Organizations.- IIIA7. Schools.- IVA. Community System Level.- IVA1. The Planning Payoff.- IVA2. Event Variability.- IVA3. Planning Principles.- IVA4. Unique Requirements of Disaster Planning.- IVA5. Community Mental Health Planning.- IVA6. Major Planning Weaknesses.- IVA7. Variability in Extent of Planning.- IVA8. Community Acceptance of Planning.- VA. Society System Level.- VAI. System Variation.- VA2. System Complexity.- VA3. System Changes.- VA4. System Outputs.- VIA. International System Level.- Selected Bibliography.- 3. Warning.- IB. Individual System Level.- IBI. Disaster Warnings as a Social Process.- IB2. Initial Responses.- IB3. Message Qualities.- IB4. Receiver Qualities.- IB5. Confirmation Behavior.- IIB. Group System Level.- IIB1. Group Impacts on Warning Belief.- IIB2. Confirmation and Coalescing Behavior.- IIB3. Earthquake Prediction Responses.- IIIB. Organizational System Level.- IIIB1. Correlates of Organizational Response.- IIIB2. Organization-Public Interface.- IVB. Community System Level.- IVB1. Community Variation in Warning System Composition.- IVB2. Correlates of Community Response.- VB. Society System Level.- VB1. Warning Systems within the U.S.A..- VB2. Warning Systems Outside the U.S.A..- VIB. International System Level.- Selected Bibliography.- 4. Evacuation and Other Forms of Pre-Impact Mobilization.- IC. Individual System Level.- IC1. Pre-evacuation Responses.- IC2. Evacuation Rates and Reasons.- IC3. Receiver Qualities.- IC4. Message Qualities.- IIC. Group System Level.- IIC 1. Group Interactions.- IIC2. Families as Evacuation Units.- IIC3. Shelter Selections.- IIIC. Organizational System Level.- IIIC1. Organizational Leadership in Evacuations.- IIIC2. Organizational Structure and Evacuation Effectiveness.- IIIC3. Media Organization Responses.- IVC. Community System Level.- IVC1. Community Dynamics.- IVC2. Disaster Subcultures.- IVC3. Public Shelter Use.- VC. Society System Level.- VC1. Natural Disaster Evacuations.- VC2. War-Caused Evacuations.- VIC. International System Level.- Selected Bibliography.- 5. Post-impact Emergency Actions.- ID. Individual System Level.- ID 1. Victim Reactions.- ID2. Non-Victim Actions.- ID3. Emotional Responses.- IID. Group System Level.- HD 1. Family Responses.- IID2. Emergent Group Responses.- HID. Organizational System Level.- IIID1. Initial Responses.- IIID2. Emergent Organizations.- IIID3. Stress Effects.- IIID4. Correlates of Effectiveness.- IIID5. Media Organization Responses.- IIID6. Medical Organization Responses.- IVD. Community System Level.- IVD1. Global Community Response Patterns.- IVD2. Correlates of Effectiveness.- IVD3. Community Solidarity.- IVD4. Interorganizational Relations.- IVD5. Emergency Medical Systems.- IVD6. Handling of the Dead.- VD. Society System Level.- VID. International System Level.- VIDI. Societal Response Differences.- VID2. International System Responses.- Selected Bibliography.- 6. Restoration.- IE. Individual System Level.- IE1. Victim Perceptions of the Recovery Process.- IE2. Victim Health Status.- IIE. Group System Level.- IIE1. Differential Participation in the Therapeutic Community.- IIE2. Relatives as Help Sources.- IIE3. Shelter Behaviors.- IIE4. Correlates