Abstract

Scholarly approaches to understanding chaos theory as it applies to emergency management, especially within the context of homeland security, would be extremely valuable to local practitioners. Alan Kirschenbaum postulates a chasm between the perceptions of disaster victims and the delivery of services by disaster management bureaucracies. Kirschenbaum argues that the chasm has been created by the bureaucracy itself and that bureaucracy focuses on its own survival and usurps the role of the community in disaster management.

Recommended Citation

Quigley, Valerie CEM (2004) "Chaos Organization and Disaster Management," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 1 : Iss. 3, Article 307.
DOI: 10.2202/1547-7355.1055
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol1/iss3/307