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Item Collective Behavior In the September 11, 2001 Evacuation Of The World Trade Center(Disaster Research Center, 2001) Connell, RoryCollective behavior framework is utilized to examine the evacuation of the World Trade Center complex following the attacks of September 11. Using both first-person newspaper accounts and media reports, the paper focuses on emerging norms in the decision to evacuate as well as the evacuation process itself. Three key factors affected the decision to evacuate: (1) social location, (2) the role of leaders, and (3) the level of perceived threat. Helping behavior, the definition of norms in the stairwells, and episodes of deviant behavior as emerging norms were all evident in the evacuation process. Panic was not widely observed during the evacuation of the Twin Towers. Improvements made following the 1993 World Trade Center attack contributed to a more successful evacuation.Item Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Assessment Of Ten Non-Pilot Communities(2002) Wachtendorf, Tricia; Connell, Rory; Monahan, Brian; Tierney, Kathleen J.Item Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Assessment Of The Pilot Phase - Year 3(2002) Wachtendorf, Tricia; Connell, Rory; Tierney, Kathleen J.; Kompanik, KristyItem Emergencies, Crises and Disasters in Hospitals(Disaster Research Center, 2002) Aguirre, B. E.; Kendra, James; Connell, RoryThis paper uses information from 76 participants in 13 focus groups in acute-care hospital organizations in California, Tennessee, and New York, to offer a model of rapid social change in hospitals. It find that hospitals, to ensure health service delivery in a variety of often rapidly changing and turbulent environments, engage in constant improvement and planning, programming, and collective mindfulness of current and future troubles. Hospitals do not differentiate operationally between emergencies, crises and disasters and do not have an objective set of criteria to invoke their disaster plan, but instead rely on staff's subjective evaluations of the actual and/or potential impact of hazards and/or other occasions on their operations; the likely effects of these occasions and conditions on the hospital's ability to continue to care for its patients optimally; the extent to which staff has confidence in its predictions; and the degree of preparedness and planning for these occasions. Community disasters are not necessarily hospital disasters, and the reverse is also the case. The implications of these findings for an institutional conceptualization of disasters are discussed.