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Disaster Studies - SAGE Publications
2011 The Author(s) 2011 ISA (Editorial Arrangement of )Michael K Lindell, 2011, Disaster Studies , , DOI: of Disaster researchAlthough historical and literary accounts of disastersdate back thousands of years, scientific analyses aremore recent. Dynes (2000) contends that Rousseauprovided the first social scientific insights into disasterwith his observation that the impacts of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake would have been diminished if thecity had been less densely populated and if people hadevacuated promptly in response to the initial than 150 years later, William James s (1983)observations in San Francisco immediately after the1906 earthquake also anticipated important themes oflater research by reporting improvisation ( the rapidi-ty of the improvisation of order out of chaos , p. 336)and emergent organization ( within twenty fourhours, rations, clothing, hospital, quarantine, disin-fection, washing, police, military, quarters in campand in houses, printed information, employment, allwere provided for under the care of so many volunteercommittees , p.)
3 Lindell Disaster studies researchers collect important documents and inter-view key informants who are identified by organiza-tional position or by snowball sampling.
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