Paper #2 Topics and Starter Resources

 
Issue Paper #2: Topics
1)      Emergence in the Response to Critical Incidents
Emergent Phenomena and Multiorganizational Coordination in Disasters: Lessons from the Research Literature: http://ijmed.org/articles/574/download/
Emergency Behaviors and Groups in the Crisis Time of Disasters: http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/634/PP226.pdf?sequence=1
2)      Convergence in the Response to Critical Incidents (focus on personal, material, or informational convergence)
Considering, Convergence, Coordination and Social Capital in Disasters: http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/737/PP342A.pdf?sequence=1
Convergence Behavior in Disasters: A Problem of Social Control: http://ia600508.us.archive.org/10/items/convergencebehav00fritrich/convergencebehav00fritrich.pdf
Personal Convergence: Spontaneous Volunteer Response to Disasters: The Benefits and Consequences of Good Intentions: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~dorpjr/Publications/JournalPapers/jemarticle_fernandez.pdf
Material Convergence: Estimating Material Convergence: Flow of Donations for Hurricane Katrina: http://transp.rpi.edu/~HUM-LOG/Doc/donations.pdf
Informational Convergence: Site-seeing in disaster: An examination of on-line social convergence (Library): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228799549_Site-seeing_in_disaster_An_examination_of_on-line_social_convergence
3)      The Future: Social Media in Critical Incidents
Backchannels on the Front Lines: Emergent Uses of Social Media in the 2007 Southern California Wildfire:  https://cmci.colorado.edu/~palen/Papers/iscram08/BackchannelsISCRAM08.pdf
Twittering Tennessee: Distributed Networks and Collaboration Following a Technological Disaster:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228639820_Twittering_Tennessee_Distributed_Networks_and_Collaboration_Following_a_Technological_Disaster
4)      Warning the Public: Crisis Communications (Focus on systems or behavior response)
The missing links in community warning systems: findings from two Victorian community warning system projects:  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8768/63ea5bf707a5660a3a82da1de386e0d47c36.pdf
Understanding disaster warning responses (Library): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036233199900021X
Hazard Warning Systems: Review of 20 years of Progress (systems):  http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_4173_f11/Sorensen_warning_systems.pdf
5)      Command and Control: Evaluating the Incident Command System
A Critical Evaluation of the Incident Command System and NIMS: http://www.rooboyspatches.com/files/ICS_Article_2.pdf
The Incident Command System: A 25-Year Evaluation by California Practitioners: https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=454470
Organizing Response to Disasters with the Incident Command System/Incident Management System (ICS/IMS):  http://ncdr.nat.gov.tw/iwerr/doc/pdf/S10%20PDF/s10-1%20Lindell.pdf
Evaluating the Impact of Improvisation on the Incident Command System: A Modified Single Case Study using the DDD Simulator: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228619546_Evaluating_the_impact_of_improvisation_on_the_incident_command_system_A_modified_single_case_study_using_the_DDD_simulator
From Forest Fires to Hurricane Katrina: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems:  http://cra20.humansci.msstate.edu/From%20Forest%20Fires%20to%20Katrina.pdf
6)      Evacuations in Critical incidents (Focus on General issues for Evacuations or Special Populations)
Report to Congress on Catastrophic Hurricane Evacuation Plan Evaluation: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/hurricanevacuation/index.htm
Evacuation Behavior in Response to the Graniteville, South Carolina, Chlorine Spill: http://hermes.cde.state.co.us/drupal/islandora/object/co%3A5472/datastream/OBJ/download/Evacuation_behavior_in_response_to_the_Graniteville__South_Carolina__chlorine_spill.pdf
Persons with Disabilities:

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Disasters, Evacuations and Persons with Disabilities: An Assessment of Key Issues Facing Individuals and Households:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557096/
Preliminary Observations on the Evacuation of Vulnerable Populations due to Hurricanes and Other Disasters: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06790t.pdf
Pets and Evacuations:

Planning for Pet Evacuations during Disasters: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250147070_Planning_for_Pet_Evacuations_during_Disasters

7)      Responding to Active Shooters (Dynamic Events)
Preventing Another Mumbai: Building a Police Operational Art: http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Vol2Iss6-Art2.pdf
Swarming and the Future of Conflict: http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf
Active Shooters on College Campuses: Conflicting Advice, Roles of the Individual and First Responder, and the Need to Maintain Perspective:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/active-shooters-on-college-campuses-conflicting-advice-roles-of-the-individual-and-first-responder-and-the-need-to-maintain-perspective/7F1BF55B11EC46D3EE7E7DF8EC55654A
NYPD – Active Shooter: Recommendations and Analysis for Risk Mitigation: http://info.publicintelligence.net/NYPD-ActiveShooter.pdf 
8)      Emergency Responders and Reporting for Duty (Role Conflict)***
Reporting for Duty?  A Synthesis of Research on Role Conflict, Strain and Abandonment among Emergency Responders during Disasters and Catastrophes:  http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/9885
Local public health workers’ perceptions toward responding to an influenza pandemic: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-6-99
Family-to-Work Conflict among Texas Law Enforcement Officers in the Wake of the Hurricane Rita Evacuation (Library): http://www.ijmed.org/articles/584/
You Tube Video of Presentation by Dr. Trainor on Disaster Research Center Report:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWKRqnExHgY
 (9) Cybersecurity Policy
Cyber Operations
“Tracing the sources of today’s Russian Cyberthreat” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tracing-the-sources-of-today-rsquo-s-russian-cyberthreat/
“Organizations and Cybercrime: An Analysis of the Nature of Groups engaged in Cyber Crime” http://www.cybercrimejournal.com/broadhurstetalijcc2014vol8issue1.pdf
“North Korea’s Growing Criminal Cyberthreat” Dorothy Denning https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/north-korea-rsquo-s-growing-criminal-cyberthreat/
“Defining Cybersecurity” https://timreview.ca/article/835
“Cyber Border Security – Defining and Defending a National Cyber Border” Phillip Osborn https://www.hsaj.org/articles/14093
“Cyberlaw and Policy” http://www.airuniversity.af.mil/CyberCollege/Portal/Article/Article/1238536/cyberlaw-and-policy/

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