Description
Find the answers to disaster and emergency management research questions with Disaster and Emergency Management Methods. 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.
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.
Disaster and Emergency Management Methods serves as an effective way to empower readers to approach their own study of disaster and emergency management research methods with confidence.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Havidán Rodríguez
Introduction: Engaging in Research within the Disaster and Emergency Management Contexts
Jason D. Rivera
Part 1: Preliminary Considerations of Disaster and Emergency Management Research
1. Practical Considerations for Ethical Research in Post-Disaster Communities
Frances L. Edwards
2. Sampling in Disaster and Emergency Management Research
Debra Borie-Holtz & Ashley Koning
3. Disastrous Inferences? The Ecological Fallacy in Disaster and Emergency Management Research
Paul A. Jargowsky
4.Mixed Methods Research in Disaster & Emergency Management
Barbara R. Russo
5. Studying Vulnerable Populations in Disaster
Jason D. Rivera & Alice Fothergill
Part 2: Qualitative and Interpretivist Approaches to Studying Disaster and Emergency Management
6. Interviewing in a Disaster Context
Brenda D. Phillips
7. Focus Group Research in Disaster and Emergency Management
Kaila Witkowski, Christa L. Remington & Nazife Emel Ganapati
8. Site Mapping as Participatory Action: A Methodology for Practitioners, Academics, Students, and the Community
Michèle Companion
9. Language-based Theories and Methods in Emergency and Disaster Management
Claire Connolly Knox
10. Ethnography without Experimentation: Ethnographic Methods in Post-Disaster Contexts
Stephen Danley, Sis. Anetha Perry, Jazmyne McNeese & Lili Razi
11. Observation Research in Emergency and Disaster Management
Monica Bustinza, Kira Haensel & Nazife Emel Ganapati
12. Secondary Data and Qualitative Content Analysis in Emergency Management Research
Jerry V. Graves
Part 3: Quantitative and Policy Approaches to Studying Disaster and Emergency Management
13. Large Secondary Datasets: Imperative for Addressing Global Public Health Disasters
Njoki Mwarumba
14. A Brief Introduction to Statistical Modeling for Disaster and Emergency Management Research
Mwarumba Mwavita
15. Social Network Analysis for Disaster Management Research
Timothy Fraser, Courtney Page-Tan & Daniel P. Aldrich
16. Quasi-Experimental Research in the Wild: Walking the Line Between Quantitative and Qualitative
DeeDee Bennett Gayle, Salimah LaForce & Maureen Linden
17. Using Historical Institutionalism: FEMA and U.S. Disaster Declarations
Richard Sylves
18. Mapping Resilience: GIS Techniques for Disaster Studies
Courtney Page-Tan, Tim Fraser & Daniel P. Aldrich
Conclusion: Understanding Disasters: Questions Should Drive Methods and Other Interdisciplinary Lessons
Virgil Henry Storr & Stefanie Haeffele
