Rising to the Challenges of a Catastrophe: The Emergent and Prosocial Behavior following Hurricane Katrina

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 604, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-101

  Rodríguez, Havidán ^a   Trainor, Joseph ^a   Quarantelli, Enrico L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

catastrophe; disaster; emergent groups; Hurricane Katrina; looting; media; organizational improvisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847359868     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716205284677     Document Type: Article

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