Comprehensive emergency management: Evacuating threatened populations. Topical report

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5229526

Perry, R W

The structure of emergency management is outlined and emergency management tasks including mitigation and preparedness activities, are addressed. Four actors in the emergency management system are described: local governments, state governments, Federal government, and private organizations. Man-made and natural disasters are compared and human response to three emergency situations is described: (1) the nuclear reaction incident at Three Mile Island, (2) the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens volcano, and (3) a riverine flood. Citizen response comparisons among these disaster events is focused on: (1) the source and credibility of evacuation warnings; and (2) citizen evacuation decisions. Information is supplied on the way citizens make decisions in emergencies, social-psychological responses to emergencies, the context of evacuation planning in hazard management, and strategies for enhancing citizen compliance with evacuation warnings.

• Research Organization: Battelle Human Affairs Research Center, Seattle, WA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5229526
• Report Number(s): PB-84-123223
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
POPULATION RELOCATION
EVALUATION
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
EMERGENCY PLANS
CIVIL DEFENSE
DECISION MAKING
FLOODS
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
HUMAN POPULATIONS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
MANAGEMENT
STATE GOVERNMENT
VOLCANOES
ACCIDENTS
DISASTERS
NATIONAL DEFENSE
POPULATIONS
990500* - Civilian Defense- (-1987)