Managing volunteers: FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue programme and interactions with unaffiliated responders in disaster response

Disasters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 495-507

  Barsky, Lauren E ^a   Trainor, Joseph E ^a   Torres, Manuel R ^a   Aguirre, Benigno E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster response organisations; Urban Search and Rescue; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; URBAN SERVICE;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NATURAL DISASTERS; RELIEF WORK; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 36349017823     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2007.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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