Disaster and Emergency Management Methods (eBook, ePUB)

Social Science Approaches in Application
Redaktion: Rivera, Jason D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written to engage students and to provide a flexible foundation for instructors and practitioners, this interdisciplinary textbook provides a holistic understanding of disaster and emergency management research methods used in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000411164
• Artikelnr.: 62001695

Autorenporträt

Jason D. Rivera is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at SUNY Buffalo State. He has completed research on all phases of disaster and emergency management using a broad range of methodological approaches and designs as a means of focusing on individual decision-making and behavior. Rivera is also interested in issues related to social equity, governance, and organizational structures, and epistemology. Prior to his arrival at SUNY Buffalo State, Rivera earned his PhD at Rutgers University - Camden in public affairs and worked as a research associate at two different academic institutions - the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University and the Liberal Arts and Science Institute for Research and Community Service at Rowan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction: Engaging in Research within the Disaster and
Emergency Management Contexts Part 1: Preliminary Considerations of
Disaster and Emergency Management Research 1. Practical Considerations for
Ethical Research in Post-Disaster Communities 2. Sampling in Disaster and
Emergency Management Research 3. Disastrous Inferences? The Ecological
Fallacy in Disaster and Emergency Management Research 4.Mixed Methods
Research in Disaster & Emergency Management 5. Studying Vulnerable
Populations in Disaster Part 2: Qualitative and Interpretivist Approaches
to Studying Disaster and Emergency Management 6. Interviewing in a Disaster
Context 7. Focus Group Research in Disaster and Emergency Management 8.
Site Mapping as Participatory Action: A Methodology for Practitioners,
Academics, Students, and the Community 9. Language-based Theories and
Methods in Emergency and Disaster Management 10. Ethnography without
Experimentation: Ethnographic Methods in Post-Disaster Contexts 11.
Observation Research in Emergency and Disaster Management 12. Secondary
Data and Qualitative Content Analysis in Emergency Management Research
Part 3: Quantitative and Policy Approaches to Studying Disaster and
Emergency Management 13. Large Secondary Datasets: Imperative for
Addressing Global Public Health Disasters 14. A Brief Introduction to
Statistical Modeling for Disaster and Emergency Management Research 15.
Social Network Analysis for Disaster Management Research 16.
Quasi-Experimental Research in the Wild: Walking the Line Between
Quantitative and Qualitative 17. Using Historical Institutionalism: FEMA
and U.S. Disaster Declarations 18. Mapping Resilience: GIS Techniques for
Disaster Studies Conclusion: Understanding Disasters: Questions Should
Drive Methods and Other Interdisciplinary Lessons