IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/pubmgr/v15y2013i3p344-362.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Core and Periphery of Emergency Management Networks

Author

Listed:
  • Scott E. Robinson
  • Warren S. Eller
  • Melanie Gall
  • Brian J. Gerber

Abstract

Emergency planning and response increasingly involve close interactions between a diverse array of actors across fields (emergency management, public health, law enforcement, etc.); sectors (government, non-profit and for-profit); and levels of government (local, state and federal). This article assesses the temporal dynamics of emergency management networks in two moderately sized communities that have served as large-scale disaster evacuation hosting sites in the past decade. The paper uses two strategies for tracking the evolution of these networks across time. First, we develop a network roster using newspaper and newswire data sources across a decade. Second, we develop a view of the evolution of the networks by analysing emergency operations plans for each community. Analysis of data reveals a contrast between a core set of consistent (mostly governmental) actors and a peripheral set of rapidly turning over (mostly non-governmental) actors - though the account depends on the mode of data on which one focuses. The article concludes with a discussion of the advantage presented by having a two-tier network for evacuation hosting that mixes core and periphery across multiple sectors.

Suggested Citation

  • Scott E. Robinson & Warren S. Eller & Melanie Gall & Brian J. Gerber, 2013. "The Core and Periphery of Emergency Management Networks," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 344-362, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:344-362
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.769849
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14719037.2013.769849
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14719037.2013.769849?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Thein Myomin & Seunghoo Lim, 2022. "The emergence of multiplex dynamics between information provision ties and rescue collaboration ties: a longitudinal network analytic approach to flooding cases in Myanmar," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 114(1), pages 645-663, October.
    2. Alireza Abbasi, 2014. "Link formation pattern during emergency response network dynamics," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 71(3), pages 1957-1969, April.
    3. Bojan Obrenovic & Jianguo Du & Danijela Godinic & Diana Tsoy & Muhammad Aamir Shafique Khan & Ilimdorjon Jakhongirov, 2020. "Sustaining Enterprise Operations and Productivity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: “Enterprise Effectiveness and Sustainability Model”," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(15), pages 1-27, July.
    4. Kyu-Myoung Lee & Kyujin Jung, 2019. "Factors Influencing the Response to Infectious Diseases: Focusing on the Case of SARS and MERS in South Korea," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(8), pages 1-19, April.
    5. Mackenzie Consoer & Anita Milman, 2016. "The dynamic process of social capital during recovery from Tropical Storm Irene in Vermont," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 84(1), pages 155-174, October.
    6. Jie Liu & Jingyu Hao & Zhenwu Shi & Helen X. H. Bao, 2020. "Building the COVID-19 Collaborative Emergency Network: a case study of COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province, China," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 104(3), pages 2687-2717, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:15:y:2013:i:3:p:344-362. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RPXM20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.