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Published in: Public Organization Review 4/2009

01-12-2009

The Dynamics of Disaster Recovery: Resilience and Entropy in Hurricane Response Systems 2005–2008

Authors: Louise K. Comfort, Namkyung Oh, Gunes Ertan

Published in: Public Organization Review | Issue 4/2009

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Abstract

The challenge for policy makers and disaster managers is to achieve a balance between two dynamics — resilience and entropy — in order to develop sustainable risk reduction. Achieving an appropriate balance between resilience and entropy in any given community requires a systematic exploration of both dynamics. The recent hurricanes that struck Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 and Hurricane Gustav, on September 1, 2008, offer an unusual opportunity to assess the degree to which both dynamics operated following Hurricane Katrina.
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Footnotes
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Our data may reveal a weakness in validity, since once an organization is in the system and interacting with other organizations, additional interactions may not be reported everyday by the newspaper. Consequently, the correlations observed overtime are likely to be much higher in reality. Yet, assuming that the newspaper accounts are reliable, (e.g. if there is a bias in terms of reporting the continued interactions among organizations over time, it is similar for both response systems, since the data for the content analysis of the Katrina and Gustav systems are taken from Times Picayune), then comparison of the response systems for Gustav and Katrina are valid since the data for both analyses are collected from the same source
 
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Metadata
Title
The Dynamics of Disaster Recovery: Resilience and Entropy in Hurricane Response Systems 2005–2008
Authors
Louise K. Comfort
Namkyung Oh
Gunes Ertan
Publication date
01-12-2009
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Organization Review / Issue 4/2009
Print ISSN: 1566-7170
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7098
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-009-0098-3

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