Browsing by Subject "disaster"
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Disaster Mitigation Programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma: An Examination of Organizational Survival
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-07-01)This study uses qualitative analysis to examine how Tulsa Project Impact, a formalized emergent citizen group, survived a major external environmental change. Tulsa Project Impact was formed from FEMA Project Impact, a ... -
Emergent Phenomena in India after the Indian Ocean Tsunami
(Oklahoma State University, 2006-05-01)The purpose of this study was to determine if emergence occurred after the Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2004. Emergence defined as new tasks and structures after disasters that meet and manage massive disaster needs. ... -
Government disaster assistance: An exploration of expectations
(2020-12)Scholars have raised concerns that individuals' expectations of government disaster assistance are outsized and do not align with reality. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore participants' expectations of ... -
Identifying Organizations with Roles in Disaster Resiliency for Rural Areas and Agricultural Businesses in Oklahoma: a Delphi Study
(Oklahoma State University, 2013-12-01)In an effort to increase resilience, the purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of two groups of professionals, one agriculture-focused and the other disaster-focused, regarding organizations that should be ... -
Methodology for planning reconstruction activities after a disaster considering interdependencies and priorities
(2020-05)A disaster relief chain can be divided into phases such as pre-disaster, disaster response, and post-disaster. This paper focus on the post-disaster phase, specifically in the recovery activity. After a disaster occurs, ... -
Oklahoma Wildfires: Examining Extension Partnerships in Large Animal Disaster Preparedness
(2019-07)Oklahoma wildfires negatively impact livestock communities throughout the state. To reduce these impacts, two stakeholders have been given responsibility to assist with disaster preparations, Emergency Managers (EMs) and ... -
Rural Oklahoma and the nexus of disaster vulnerability, risk, and resilience
(2022-03)The concepts of vulnerability, risk, and resilience have experienced a meteoric rise in academic attention among disaster scholars over the past three decades. Vulnerability operates as the set of social conditions which ... -
Telesis 2021
(2021)Front Matter: This edition of Telesis, the University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture student journal, explores the theme of "Isolation." -
Tornado warning response among international and domestic college students in a dynamic tracking task
(2020-05)This research is to investigate Oklahoma State University's (OSU) international and domestic students' tornado information preferences and their choices of protective actions when facing tornado threats. This study utilized ...