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Item An Annotated Bibliography on Disaster Mental Health and Crisis Intervention in Smaller Communities(Disaster Research Center, 1978) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Baisden, BarbaraItem Business Disruption, Preparedness And Recovery: Lessons From The Northridge Earthquake(Disaster Research Center, 1997) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Dahlhamer, James M.Item Business Impacts Of The Northridge Earthquake(Disaster Research Center, 1996) Tierney, Kathleen J.Item Business Vulnerability And Disruption: Data From The 1993 Midwest Floods(Disaster Research Center, 1993) Tierney, Kathleen J.Understanding business vulnerability to disasters is important for loss estimation, hazard mitigation, disaster preparedness, and recovery planning. However, only a very small number of studies have focused systematically on that topic. This paper presents preliminary findings from a study of a random sample of 1079 businesses in Des Moines/Polk County, Iowa, a community that experienced extensive damage and disruption as a result of the Midwest floods of 1993. The study focused on a range of topics, including business dependence on lifeline services, the physical flood damage businesses experienced, lifeline service disruption, and the impacts that disruption had on businesses. This paper reports findings on the importance of different lifeline services for businesses in different economic sectors and on flood-related lifeline service interruptions and their impact on business operations.Item Business Vulnerability To Disaster-Related Lifeline Disruption(Disaster Research Center, 1995) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Nigg, Joanne M.Surveys in Memphis, Tennessee and Des Moines, Iowa indicate that business owners rate electricity as the most important lifeline service. In Des Moines, where the survey was conducted following the 1993 Midwest floods, proprietors tend to assign greater importance than Memphis business owners to other lifeline services. Data on the business impacts of the 1993 floods indicate that lifeline service interruptions were widespread, were perceived by business owners as very disruptive, and were a much more significant source of business closure than actual physical flooding.Item Business Vulnerability to Earthquakes and Other Disasters(Disaster Research Center, 2001) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Webb, Gary R.Item Businesses and Disasters: Empirical Patterns and Unanswered Questions(Disaster Research Center, 1999) Webb, Gary R.; Tierney, Kathleen J.; Dahlhamer, James M.Through five systematic, large-scale mail surveys conducted since 1993, the Disaster Research Center (DRC) has obtained data on hazard awareness, preparedness, disaster impacts, and short- and long-term recovery among 5,000 private-sector firms in communities across the United States (Memphis/Shelby County, Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, Los Angeles, California, Santa Cruz County, California, and South Dade County, Florida). This paper summarizes findings from those studies in three major areas: factors influencing business disaster preparedness; disaster-related sources of business disruption and financial loss; and factors that affect the ability of businesses to recover following major disaster events. Implications of the research for business contingency planning and business disaster management are discussed.Item Conceptualizing and Measuring Organizational and Community Resilience: Lessons From The Emergency Response Following The September 11, 2001 Attack on The World Trade Center(Disaster Research Center, 2003) Tierney, Kathleen J.Resilience is a property of physical and social systems that enables them to reduce the probability of disaster-induced loss of functionality, respond appropriately when damage and disruption occur, and recover in a timely manner. Resilience can further be conceptualized as consisting of four dimensions: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity. It can be further seen as consisting of technical, organizational, social, and economic elements. This analysis focuses on resourcefulness as an organizational and social phenomenon. In responding to the World Trade Center disaster, organizations exhibited considerable resourcefulness, as indicated by the capacity to manage convergence and emergence; by the network forms of organization that developed to cope with disaster-related problems; and by the ability to address response-related challenges through improvisation. Since resourcefulness can be viewed as both collective sensemaking and collective action, it is ultimately rooted in the same kinds of social conditions and processes that make those activities possible.Item Controversy And Consensus In Disaster Mental Health Research(Disaster Research Center, 2000) Tierney, Kathleen J.Controversies regarding the mental health consequences of disasters are rooted both in disciplinary orientations and in the widely varied research strategies that have been employed in disaster mental health studies. However, despite a history of dissensus, there are also key issues on which researchers agree. Disasters constitute stressful and traumatic experiences. However, vulnerability to such experiences, as well as to more chronic stressors, is socially structured, reflecting the influence of socioeconomic status and other axes of stratification, including gender, race, and ethnicity. Disaster events differ in the extent to which they generate stress for victims. A holistic perspective on disaster mental health would take into account not only disaster event characteristics, but also social-systemic sources of both acute and chronic stress, secondary and cumulative stressors, and victims’ internal and external coping capacities.Item Coping With Y2K: Organizational Adaptation And Change At The U.S. Department Of Transportation(2000) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Harrald, John R.; Webb, Gary R.Item Crisis Intervention Programs For Disaster Victims: A Source Book And Manual For Smaller Communities(Disaster Research Center, 1977) Tierney, Kathleen J.; Baisden, BarbaraItem Delivery of Emergency Medical Services in Disasters(Disaster Research Center, 1977) Quarantelli, E. L.; Taylor, Verta A.; Tierney, Kathleen J.Item Developing Multivariate Models For Earthquake Casualty Estimation(Disaster Research Center, 1990) Tierney, Kathleen J.Item Disaster Preparation Planning(Disaster Research Center, 1979-03) Quarantelli, E. L.; Tierney, Kathleen J.Item Disaster Preparedness And Response: Research Findings And Guidance From The Social Science Literature(Disaster Research Center, 1993) Tierney, Kathleen J.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 Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Evaluation Of The Pilot Phase. Year 2(2000) Nigg, Joanne M.; Riad, Jasmin K.; Wachtendorf, Tricia; Tierney, Kathleen J.Item Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Focus Group Analysis(2000) Wachtendorf, Tricia; Riad, Jasmin K.; Tierney, Kathleen J.Item Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Local Community Representatives Share Their Views: Year 3 Focus(2001) Wachtendorf, Tricia; Tierney, Kathleen J.
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