Organizational Networks in Disaster Response: An Examination of the US Government Network's Efforts in Hurricane Katrina

The Handbook of Crisis Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 93-114

  Adkins, Gabriel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

"Disaster" and "Crisis" definitions disaster and crises interrelationships; Communication role in disaster response; Coombs' situational crisis communication theory (SCCT); Examination of US Government network's efforts in Hurricane Katrina; Examining disasters and crises from a holistic perspective; New Orleans, Katrina's devastation and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); New theoretical frameworks chaos and networking theory; Organizational networks in disaster response; SCCT using modified three stage approach pre crisis, crisis, and post crisis phases; Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis tool

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857380558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314885.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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