The Role of Local Civil Defense in Disaster Planning,
Abstract
Intensive field studies involving over 300 in-depth interviews in 12 American cities were conducted in an effort to ascertain the conditions associated with variations in the tasks, saliency and legitimacy of local civil defense organizations around the United States. Conditions which are most likely to be productive of successful local civil defense involvement in disaster planning are that the local organization develops experience in handling a variety of community emergencies, that municipal government provides a structure which accepts and legitimizes the civil defense function, that the local civil defense director has the ability to generate significant pre-disaster relationships among those organizations which do become involved in emergency activities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA008421
Entities
People
- E. L. Quarantelli
- Russell R. Dynes
Organizations
- Ohio State University