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Tucker, Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This multiple-case qualitative study was conducted to examine the perceptions of community members, students, and staff regarding school crisis management following a 2006 tornado and 2010 bus accident in a small rural school district in Missouri. Online surveys were collected from 66 participants, and 10 follow-up interviews were completed with…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Freudenburg, William R.; Gramling, Robert; Laska, Shirley; Erikson, Kai T. – Social Forces, 2008
Disaster studies have made important progress in recognizing the unequally distributed consequences of disasters, but there has been less progress in analyzing social factors that help create "natural" disasters. Even well-known patterns of hazard-creation tend to be interpreted generically--as representing "economic development" or…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Natural Disasters, Safety, Human Factors Engineering