Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

<p>Find the answers to disaster and emergency management research questions with <i>Disaster and Emergency Management Methods</i>. 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.</p><p>The disaster and emergency management contexts have a host of challenges that affect the research process that subsequently shape methodological approaches, data quality, analysis and inferences. In this book, readers are presented with the considerations that must be made before engaging in the research process, in addition to a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches that are currently being used in the discipline. Current, relevant, and fascinating real-world applications provide a window into how each approach is being applied in the field.</p><p><i>Disaster and Emergency Management Methods</i> serves as an effective way to empower readers to approach their own study of disaster and emergency management research methods with confidence.</p> <p>Foreword Introduction: Engaging in Research within the Disaster and Emergency Management Contexts <strong>Part 1: Preliminary Considerations of Disaster and Emergency Management Research </strong>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 <strong>Part 2: Qualitative and Interpretivist Approaches to Studying Disaster and Emergency Management </strong>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 <strong>Part 3: Quantitative and Policy Approaches to Studying Disaster and Emergency Management </strong>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<em>. </em>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</p>