With the widespread use of the idea of resilience across disciplines, it has become a buzzword in today’s world and the meaning has constantly been expanded and updated. Based on the theoretical framework of resilience, this dissertation adopts multiple methodologies in three es…
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In this dissertation, I seek to better understand health as the intersection of individual characteristics with broader historical and societal contexts by examining societal levels shocks as social determinants of health. In particular, I seek to understand pathways through whi…
The relationship between tectonic environment and human activity has a long history that intimately involves the Ancient Near East and Levant. Texts from the third millennium onward attest to earthquake imagery while records of actual earthquakes cluster in two periods in the Mi…
Flooding is the most frequently occurring natural hazard on Earth; with catastrophic, large scale floods causing immense damage to people, property, and the environment. Over the past 20 years, remote sensing has become the standard technique for flood identification because of …
This study investigates the causes of deaths and injuries in the August 17th, 1999 Kocaeli earthquake to provide recommendations for risk mitigation. An epidemiological survey of the causes of deaths and injuries was completed for 453 households with 1,861 members. A geo-spatial…
Calls for examining the interrelations between individual and collective processes of remembering have been repeatedly made within the field of memory studies. With the tendency being to focus on either the individual or the collective level, there have been few studies that hav…
It was 12:51pm on Tuesday the 22nd of February when a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Canterbury region in New Zealand’s South Island. This earthquake devastatingly took the lives of 185 people and caused widespread damage across Christchurch and the Canterbury region. Since…
This thesis examines the context and practices of emotion management for National workers in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) through a study of national workers recruited into disaster intervention in India. The research draws on postcolonial theory and prob…
What is the effect of natural disasters on political violence? Despite the widespread speculation about the possibilities for peace that typically occurs after a natural disaster strikes in a conflict zone, relatively little is known about the way disasters impact political mech…
Military organizations are often called upon to assist with emergency management missions, so it is critical that they have appropriately established and well understood organizational perceptual factors. Military organizations are often unique within a nation, which increases t…
A natural gas pipeline exploded in a residential neighborhood in Western United States. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of resilience in the aftermath of this disaster. Traditionally, disaster literature has focused on the negative impacts of disasters, emphasi…
Households from the rural areas of developing countries often lack many markets of interest, leading them often to tradeoff their long-run wellbeing for short-run survival priorities. Such situations create pressures on the limited volumes of natural resources available to them,…
This is a case study of three small businesses that uncovers management and employee reactions to natural or mechanical disasters and the recovery processes. The study explores Weick's Theory of Sensemaking to determine managers' and employees' perceptions of job changes post cr…
The great Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 hit many countries in South and Southeast Asia and affected millions of individuals. As such, it led to one of the biggest reconstruction projects in the world, whether considered in terms of the scale of project, nu…
In most design problems, there are multiple schemas, or ways or orienting and organizing the knowledge content in the problem domain, and which by extension defines the range and bearing of solutions. This dissertation examines the properties of individual and clusters of schema…
The resurgent question ever-present in the wake of extreme pain, suffering, and inexplicability is “Why?” This question fuels philosophical, scientific, theological, and historical investigation, and the response to this question drives the research of this dissertation. The com…
As climate disasters become increasingly prevalent worldwide, it is imperative that sociologists study the processes that produce unequal disaster recovery outcomes and propose interventions that can mitigate these disparities. This study draws on 134 in-depth interviews and six…