{"title":"Focus Group Administration in Disaster Research: Methodological Transparency when Dealing with Challenges","authors":"Jason D. Rivera","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700301","url":null,"abstract":"Focus groups are a cost effective and efficient methodological approach to generating data on disaster victims’ experiences. However, their administration is fraught with a number of challenges. Although the challenges faced by researchers are known to those that practice this data acquisition technique, the obstacles and the strategies for overcoming them are not well documented in the literature. This lack of transparency leaves focus group studies, as rigorous as they maybe, open to questions of validity and replication. Therefore, this paper seeks to provide an overview of how disaster scholars are discussing their focus group methods and processes. Examples from the disaster literature are provided from a sample of articles published in Disasters and Natural Hazards between 2005 and 2018. By being more transparent about the challenges of conducting focus groups, disaster researchers using this technique can produce higher quality studies that are more rigorous and replicable.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"36 1","pages":"241 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84799478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Review of The Disaster Resiliency Challenge: Transforming Theory to Action","authors":"Manpreet Jaiswal","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"11 1","pages":"239 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89427719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the IJMED Editors and International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Disasters (ISA RC39) Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"193 1","pages":"124 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79729679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Review of Handbook of Disaster Research","authors":"Laura L. Olson","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"46 1","pages":"227 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81255559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voluntary Household Relocation Decision Making in the Wake of Disaster: Re-interpreting the Empirical Record","authors":"A. Greer, J. Trainor, S. McNeil","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700206","url":null,"abstract":"Household relocation decisions after disasters are influenced by many factors. Among others, these include pre- and post-event community conditions, disaster experience, available financial and social resources, place attachment, risk perceptions, and demographics. This paper provides a synthesis of the body of knowledge surrounding voluntary household relocation decisions. Simply stated, we are focused on better understanding what influences the decision to stay somewhere that has been affected by disaster or permanently leave it. This work provides two main contributions by characterizing and synthesizing research exploring relocation drivers. First, we provide several new directions for the study of this issue by proposing theoretical models not commonly used in this area of research with potential to provide insight. Second, we critically discuss the need for improvements in the conceptualization and measurement of these concepts.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"5 1","pages":"197 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87364417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging Command and Control: A Rejoinder to Anonymous Commentary","authors":"Ryan P. Burke","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700203","url":null,"abstract":"Modern military command and control (C2) incorporates flexibility, cooperation, and coordination – focal elements of Dynes’ revered Problem-Solving model – as part of its institutionalized orientation to disaster response. However, there remains a committed faction of scholars resistant to the notion that their seminal Problem-Solving model can – in fact – resemble the long decried military C2 approach. Such deep-rooted attachment to the Problem-Solving model must then be defended against any perceived threat to equate it to the tabooed military C2, for surely such a likened comparison must not be permitted to influence disaster research. This is precisely the aim, it seems, of a commentary piece submitted to IJMED in response to my August 2018 article: “Command and Control: Challenging Fallacies of the Military Model in Research and Practice.” In that piece, the commentary author misinterpreted at best – or manipulated at worst – my central argument, stating that I introduced modern military C2 “as a practical solution that satisfies the disaster researchers’ recommendations” (Anonymous 2019:125). The commentary response then proceeds to challenge the arguments presented in my article through a series of flawed assertions and subjective claims. This rejoinder addresses the anonymous author's response commentary in detail and counters the counter-arguments with discussions indicating the apparent biases and subjectivity presented in the argument. It concludes with my personal assessment of the issue and what truly compels the ongoing discussion within the disaster research community.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"9 1","pages":"130 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73325513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Review of Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience","authors":"S. Domingue","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"98 1","pages":"234 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91334717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary on Burke's Article on ‘Challenging Fallacies of the Military Model’ in the Disaster Research and Emergency Management Practice","authors":"Abdulhadi A. Al Ruwaithi, B. Aguirre","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700202","url":null,"abstract":"While the debate continues between the emergency managers and disaster research community on the applicability of the Incident Command System (ICS), Burke (2018) introduces the modern military command and control system (modern military C2) as a practical solution that satisfies the disaster researchers’ recommendations. Burke's (2018) argument concludes that both practitioners and researchers overlook the essences of the military command and control system, which can be considered an analogous model to the problem-solving approach. This commentary paper is a critical review of the Burke's (2018) perspective. It highlights how and why modern military C2 differs from the problem-solving approach. There is more similarity between modern military C2 and ICS than between them and the problem-solving approach due to their structures and the flexibility level adopted therein.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"32 1","pages":"125 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78102082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking outside of the Hospital and Nurse-Midwife Paradigms: A Qualitative Examination of Midwifery in Times of Natural Disasters","authors":"A. Monteblanco, Ophra Leyser-Whalen","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700204","url":null,"abstract":"Scientists predict that natural disasters will occur with increasing frequency and severity. Although hospitals provide the backbone for medical response during a disaster event, disasters increase demand for medical care and simultaneously reduce medical systems’ abilities to provide that care. This study considers the role that out-of-hospital midwives (birth-center and home-birth midwives) could play as disaster responders for the vulnerable population of pregnant women, new mothers, and infants who have time-sensitive, specialized medical needs. Drawing on qualitative data, we examine midwives’ commitment to respond, their preparedness measures, and the barriers to disaster response that they perceive. Many midwives believed that their model of care prepared them for natural disaster response, and they expressed a deep commitment to assist their own clients, other mothers, and infants. However, all midwives in the sample identified two barriers to their potential disaster response: limited social networks and low occupational status.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"27 1","pages":"138 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90722094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paved with Good Intentions: A Social Construction Approach to Alignment in Disaster Donations","authors":"Mary M. Nelan, Samantha Penta, Tricia Wachtendorf","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700205","url":null,"abstract":"Following disasters, materiel convergence (the influx of materiel donations) can cause extreme negative impacts; it has been described as a “second disaster”. Non-priority goods and donations that exceed the need can negatively impact transportation into the area and create storage concerns for both distribution centers and survivors. A successful supply chain aligns the needs and interests of the actors involved. This paper focuses on how actors involved in the disaster donations supply chain construct and understand their own interests, and how those interests align between actor groups (i.e. donors, donation collectors, and distributors). Interviews were conducted following Hurricane Sandy in 2013 and two tornadoes outside of Oklahoma City in May 2013 with individual actors in the donation supply chain. These interviews were analyzed for how interviewees constructed the need for donations, and the alignment of their interests with other actors at different stages. Overall, a misalignment was observed between donors, donation collectors, and donations distributors. Future research should investigate the specific interests of survivors and how their interests align with other actors in the donation supply chain.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"1 1","pages":"174 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77395788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}