Managing volunteers¶
Barsky. (2007). Managing volunteers: FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue programme and interactions with unaffiliated responders in disaster response.
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Domain-specific¶
- Volunteer-Management Overload
- After large, high-visibility catastrophes — the response to the September 11 attacks in New York, or Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — well-meaning people self-deploy to the scene in large numbers, arriving without credentials, assignments, training records, or logistics support
This sourceA study of how Urban Search and Rescue task forces interact with the well-meaning volunteers who converge on disaster sites and are judged by legitimacy, utility and liability.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
“In the aftermath of disasters it is not uncommon for a large number of individuals, ranging from professional technical responders to untrained, albeit well meaning, volunteers, to converge on site of a disaster in order to offer to help victims or other responders.”
- After large, high-visibility catastrophes — the response to the September 11 attacks in New York, or Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — well-meaning people self-deploy to the scene in large numbers, arriving without credentials, assignments, training records, or logistics support
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