Abstract
Emergency planning and response increasingly involve close interactions between a diverse array of actors across fields (emergency management, public health, law enforcement, etc.); sectors (government, non-profit and for-profit); and levels of government (local, state and federal). This article assesses the temporal dynamics of emergency management networks in two moderately sized communities that have served as large-scale disaster evacuation hosting sites in the past decade. The paper uses two strategies for tracking the evolution of these networks across time. First, we develop a network roster using newspaper and newswire data sources across a decade. Second, we develop a view of the evolution of the networks by analysing emergency operations plans for each community.Analysis of data reveals a contrast between a core set of consistent (mostly governmental) actors and a peripheral set of rapidly turning over (mostly non-governmental) actors - though the account depends on the mode of data on which one focuses. The article concludes with a discussion of the advantage presented by having a two-tier network for evacuation hosting that mixes core and periphery across multiple sectors.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 344-362 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Public Management Review |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2013 |
Keywords
- Emergency management
- collaborative public management
- disaster policy
- evacuations
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Management of Technology and Innovation