Thomas E. Drabek's research while affiliated with University of Denver and other places

... Studies analysing official recommendations for earthquakes in Europe seem to be absent from the literature, except for the study by Pereira et al. (2023). Knowledge of these recommendations can increase the understanding of risk communication messages, household preparedness, and response (Drabek, 1999;Paton et al., 2010), and the connection between research and policy in this regard. ...

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Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity

... Wildavsky ve Dake'in 1990 yılında gerçekleştirdiği çalışmada ise kültürel önyargıların, risk algılarını ve risk alma tercihlerini güçlü bir biçimde etkilendiği öne sürülmüştür. Afetleri makro düzeyde toplumsal olarak bir olgu olarak kabul ederek afetlerin kültürel olarak türetildiği ve koşullandırıldığına yönelik görüşler de bulunmaktadır (Porfiriev, 1995;Kreps & Drabek, 1996). Dahası birçok kültürde doğa kökenli afetlerin ilahi bir takdire bağlı olarak gerçekleşen kaçınılmaz olaylar olduğu ve teslimiyet gerektirdiğine dair görüşler bulunmaktadır. ...

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Afet Risk Yönetişiminde Paydaş İlişkileri Yönetimi: Birleşmiş Milletler Örneği

... Turning now to the response to emergency situations, this has been a subject of study for many scholars, but Drabek (1983) was one of the first to look at which agencies make up the emergency response networks responding to post-disaster search and rescue demands. From his analysis of a series of disasters of different sizes he concluded that every single incident -big or small -is initially responded to by one particular emergency organisation, which sets in motion an emergent multi-organisational network (Johan M Berlin & Carlström, 2008). ...

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Between Chaos and Continuity: A Common Operational Picture in Support of Emergency Response Networks

... Literature addressing evacuation has emphasised the intrinsic characteristics of people who evacuate and those who do not (Baker, 1991;Dow & Cutter, 1998;Drabek, 1999;Fischer, Stine, Stoker, Trowbridge, & Drain, 1993;Paul, 2012;Paul & Routray, 2013), along with impediments during evacuation (Mileti & Sorensen, 1990). Some studies focus on evacuation compliance at the household level along with their decisionmaking process Lindell, Perry, Prater, & Nicholson, 2006;Whitehead et al., 2000). ...

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Factors affecting the evacuation decisions of coastal households during Cyclone Aila in Bangladesh

... Different roles or players must carry out the decision's subtasks in order for coordination to occur. Both horizontal and vertical cooperation were necessary for an efficient response to major catastrophes, enabling various forms of cooperation between the federal, state, and local governments (21). This brought us to the work of Bullock et al., who described inter-governmental relations as how various tiers of government coordinated and collaborated, focusing on crossorganizational collaboration for the effective implementation of policy decisions (22). ...

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Coordination and modularization: the experience of the joint prevention and control mechanism to COVID emergencies in China

... The proponents of this social perspective contend that the preexisting barriers for PWD to achieve safety are often not addressed in and removed from society and are further exacerbated by the occurrence of disasters. This perspective is in line with the social vulnerability theory of disasters, which claims that disasters have disproportionate impacts on certain groups in society, resulting from cultural, economic, and social processes or factors, and their interactions (Wisner et al. 2004;Tierney 2014;Drabek 2018). Priestley and Hemingway (2007, p. 25) noted that "Just as disability is not the inevitable consequence of physical or cognitive impairment, disaster is not the inevitable consequence of natural hazard." ...

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An Empirical Exploration of the Capabilities of People with Disabilities in Coping with Disasters

... However, Drabek illustrates the theories that may be relevant to disaster management and says that it is important to make distinctions. 3 Drabek and McEntire say that normative, social, behavioral and emergency management, chaos, systems theories, which are frameworks that incorporate a plethora of causative variables, appear to be gaining recognition in disaster management. 1,3 The specific theories that are now being applied to disaster management include the comprehensive emergency management theory, 4 network theory, complexity theory and systems theory among others. ...

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Humanitarian Organizational Network and Effectiveness of Disaster Response — A Theoretical Review

... These are (i) preparedness, (ii) response, (iii) recovery, and (iv) mitigation. The phases were proposed in the "comprehensive emergency management" framework, accepted by the National Governors Association in 1979 (Drabek, 2017). ...

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Panic Buying and Environmental Disasters: Management and Mitigation Approaches

... These judgements on the part of responders can seriously impact the larger emergency management system. Jurisdictional emergency managers, planners, and trainers must be seen as credible professionals in the eyes of responders to achieve any level of community protection (Drabek, 1987(Drabek, , 1990. Similarly, to effectively execute their jobs, emergency responders must perceive that their training has been adequate and that their equipment is appropriate to their assigned tasks. ...

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Disaster Exercise Outcomes for Professional Emergency Personnel and Citizen Volunteers

... Much of this messaging occurs during the verification pause while those affected by a disaster are trying to decide on the appropriate action. Early attempts to understand evacuation focus on the warning itself and the belief that warnings are key to protective action/evacuation (Dash & Gladwin, 2007;Drabek, 1986). One approach to understanding the effectiveness of warnings is to look at what message features best initiate action. ...

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More Than Milling: The Pause to Verify During Crisis Events