Liesel Ashley Ritchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 305669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liesel Ashley Ritchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liesel Ashley |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchie |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHIE L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9960-3260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Resource Loss, Slow Violence, and Psychosocial Stress
In August 2022, the Pearl River flooded portions of Jackson, Mississippi and temporarily closed the city’s water treatment plant, leaving most citizens without access to safe drinking and potable water for more than a month. This event punctuated an ongoing water crisis that had lingered for decades in this predominately African American city. We employ a social production of disaster approach to reveal aspects of slow violence perpetrated agains…
A legacy of recreancy
In late August of 2022, Jackson, MS experienced severe flooding leaving approximately 150,000 without access to drinking water. Compounding this acute event is a decades long water crisis, often attributed to government neglect and mismanagement of water services. The chronic technological disaster (water crisis) worsened by a significant acute hazard event (the 2022 flood) in a place that regularly experiences flooding (persistent acute hazard e…
Fractured views
“And Then Covid-19 Happened”
There is a limited but growing body of literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic faculty, scholars, and researchers in the US and around the world. In this article, we present findings of a US-based study conceived in 2020 at the onset of COVID-19. In it, we focus on ways in which the pandemic has affected the professional and personal lives of hazard and disaster researchers from the social sciences, public health, engineeri…
Upheaval”
A growing body of literature demonstrates that both place attachment and social capital play considerable, and likely interdependent, roles in disaster recovery. This paper contributes to our understanding of these constructs by presenting findings from a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of communities impacted by a home buyout program implemented in New York after Hurricane Sandy ( N = 111). Results suggest a dynamic balance between place depen…
Citizen perceptions of fracking-related earthquakes
Considering Covid-19 through the Lens of Hazard and Disaster Research
Decades of social science research have taught us much about how individuals, groups, and communities respond to disasters. The findings of this research have helped inform emergency management practices, including disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us-researchers or not-have attempted or are attempting to make sense of what is going on around us. In this article, we assert …
Psychosocial impacts of post-disaster compensation processes
Shale Gas Development and Community Distress
This research examines psychosocial stress associated with shale gas development through the narratives of residents and the Revised Impact of Event Scale (IES-R). We carried out our research in three of England's communities impacted by shale gas development. To gather data, we conducted qualitative interviews and engaged in participant observation in all three communities and conducted a quantitative survey of residents. From our qualitative in…
Human-Induced Seismicity
Limbo
Home buyout programmes are designed to permanently relocate households away from areas that are vulnerable to future hazards, though their impacts are not well understood. Among the least understood impacts of these programmes are those related to non-participating households located near buyout zones. Here, we present findings from a study of Oakwood, NY, a peripheral community that was impacted by a buyout programme in a neighbouring community.…
Considering Cumulative Social Effects of Technological Hazards and Disasters
This article describes research designs utilized to study cumulative sociocultural and psychosocial effects of technological hazards and disasters. We apply these designs to two cases: (a) the Exxon Valdez disaster with a focus on Cordova, Alaska, and (b) the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project with a focus on the Gitga'at First Nation in Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada. The Exxon Valdez oil spill began in 1989 with the grounding of …
Factors influencing stress response avoidance behaviors following technological disasters
Building upon the growing body of empirical social science research examining psychosocial stress following natural, technological, and human-caused disasters, this article presents new research findings specifically regarding stress response avoidance behaviours. In this article, we present a conceptual model of factors contributing to such avoidance behaviours as measured by the Impact of Event Scale (IES) Avoidance subscale. We empirically tes…
Cultivating disaster resilience in rural Oklahoma
Mitigating Litigating
During the past four decades, a number of social science scholars have conceptualized technological disasters as a social problem. More specifically, research in this arena has identified individual and collective stress as a secondary trauma of processes intended to provide compensation and economic relief from disasters in general and, more specifically, technological disasters. Based on data from a 2013 household telephone survey of 1,216 resi…
Sociocultural and psychosocial impacts of the exxon valdez oil spill
Recreancy Revisited
In 1993, Freudenburg suggested the term “recreancy” to refer to behaviors associated with institutional failures, which he distinguished from the consequences of such failures. This article revisits issues related to recreancy associated with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Using qualitative data collected in Cordova, Alaska, between 2002 and 2010, we examine notions about recreancy and technological disasters. Findings highlight perceptions of …
The Exxon Valdez and BP Oil Spills
The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and the 2010 BP oil spill were the largest and most ecologically damaging releases of oil in North American history. This research provides a comparison of the social and mental health impacts of these two major technological disasters. Random samples of residents of Cordova, Alaska, and south Mobile County, Alabama, were collected 5 months after each event. A standardized indicator of event-related stress was used…
Individual Stress, Collective Trauma, and Social Capital in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This article examines persistent social impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) by focusing on the relationship between social capital and chronic individual stress and collective trauma, using Hobfoll's (1988) conservation of resources model of stress as an organizing framework. Data are based on in-depth personal interviews conducted 14 years after the disaster. Analyses focus on the ways in which stress-related behaviors associated w…
Poor design, poor construction in Haiti
Magnitude seven times two
The early recovery in Haiti
Managing Tsunami Risk
This article describes the testing of a model that proposes that people's beliefs regarding the effectiveness of hazard preparedness interact with social context factors (community participation, collective efficacy, empowerment and trust) to influence levels of hazard preparedness. Using data obtained from people living in coastal communities in Alaska and Oregon that are susceptible to experiencing tsunami, structural equation modelling analyse…
The Selendang Ayu Shipwreck and Oil Spill
On December 8, 2004, the Selendang Ayu, a Malaysian-flagged freighter, ran aground off Unalaska Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain. Despite rescue efforts by the United States Coast Guard, six of the Selendang Ayu's crew members died. In addition to the deaths, more than 300,000 gallons of heavy bulk fuel oil spilled into the sea. Much of the oil washed onto the island's shores, into areas providing cultural, recreational, subsistence, and commerc…
Post-Katrina Guiding Principles of Disaster Social Science Research
A Katrina Summit was held November 18–19 at Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center (SSRC). Major funding was provided by the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MIS–605270). Duane Gill, SSRC Associate Director for Research on Society and Environment and Coordinator of the Societal Risk Unit, organized and presided over the Summit. The Summit included eighteen invited scholars (anthropologists, geograph…
The Exxon Valdez and BP Oil Spills
The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and the 2010 BP oil spill were the largest and most ecologically damaging releases of oil in North American history. This research provides a comparison of the social and mental health impacts of these two major technological disasters. Random samples of residents of Cordova, Alaska, and south Mobile County, Alabama, were collected 5 months after each event. A standardized indicator of event-related stress was used…
Social Capital Theory as an Integrating Theoretical Framework in Technological Disaster Research
Conceptual and empirical research on technological disasters has produced a number of seminal contributions including concepts of recreancy, collective trauma, lifestyle and lifescape change, corrosive community, secondary trauma, and the ecological-symbolic perspective. This article presents social capital theory as a comprehensive framework that incorporates and integrates these key conceptual elements and theories. After presenting fundamental…
Individual Stress, Collective Trauma, and Social Capital in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This article examines persistent social impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) by focusing on the relationship between social capital and chronic individual stress and collective trauma, using Hobfoll's (1988) conservation of resources model of stress as an organizing framework. Data are based on in-depth personal interviews conducted 14 years after the disaster. Analyses focus on the ways in which stress-related behaviors associated w…
Recreancy Revisited
In 1993, Freudenburg suggested the term “recreancy” to refer to behaviors associated with institutional failures, which he distinguished from the consequences of such failures. This article revisits issues related to recreancy associated with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Using qualitative data collected in Cordova, Alaska, between 2002 and 2010, we examine notions about recreancy and technological disasters. Findings highlight perceptions of …
Mitigating Litigating
During the past four decades, a number of social science scholars have conceptualized technological disasters as a social problem. More specifically, research in this arena has identified individual and collective stress as a secondary trauma of processes intended to provide compensation and economic relief from disasters in general and, more specifically, technological disasters. Based on data from a 2013 household telephone survey of 1,216 resi…
Cultivating disaster resilience in rural Oklahoma
Sociocultural and psychosocial impacts of the exxon valdez oil spill
Limbo
Home buyout programmes are designed to permanently relocate households away from areas that are vulnerable to future hazards, though their impacts are not well understood. Among the least understood impacts of these programmes are those related to non-participating households located near buyout zones. Here, we present findings from a study of Oakwood, NY, a peripheral community that was impacted by a buyout programme in a neighbouring community.…
Citizen perceptions of fracking-related earthquakes
Considering Covid-19 through the Lens of Hazard and Disaster Research
Decades of social science research have taught us much about how individuals, groups, and communities respond to disasters. The findings of this research have helped inform emergency management practices, including disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us-researchers or not-have attempted or are attempting to make sense of what is going on around us. In this article, we assert …
Factors influencing stress response avoidance behaviors following technological disasters
Building upon the growing body of empirical social science research examining psychosocial stress following natural, technological, and human-caused disasters, this article presents new research findings specifically regarding stress response avoidance behaviours. In this article, we present a conceptual model of factors contributing to such avoidance behaviours as measured by the Impact of Event Scale (IES) Avoidance subscale. We empirically tes…
Upheaval”
A growing body of literature demonstrates that both place attachment and social capital play considerable, and likely interdependent, roles in disaster recovery. This paper contributes to our understanding of these constructs by presenting findings from a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of communities impacted by a home buyout program implemented in New York after Hurricane Sandy ( N = 111). Results suggest a dynamic balance between place depen…
Psychosocial impacts of post-disaster compensation processes
Human-Induced Seismicity
Considering Cumulative Social Effects of Technological Hazards and Disasters
This article describes research designs utilized to study cumulative sociocultural and psychosocial effects of technological hazards and disasters. We apply these designs to two cases: (a) the Exxon Valdez disaster with a focus on Cordova, Alaska, and (b) the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project with a focus on the Gitga'at First Nation in Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada. The Exxon Valdez oil spill began in 1989 with the grounding of …
The Selendang Ayu Shipwreck and Oil Spill
On December 8, 2004, the Selendang Ayu, a Malaysian-flagged freighter, ran aground off Unalaska Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain. Despite rescue efforts by the United States Coast Guard, six of the Selendang Ayu's crew members died. In addition to the deaths, more than 300,000 gallons of heavy bulk fuel oil spilled into the sea. Much of the oil washed onto the island's shores, into areas providing cultural, recreational, subsistence, and commerc…
Post-Katrina Guiding Principles of Disaster Social Science Research
A Katrina Summit was held November 18–19 at Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center (SSRC). Major funding was provided by the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MIS–605270). Duane Gill, SSRC Associate Director for Research on Society and Environment and Coordinator of the Societal Risk Unit, organized and presided over the Summit. The Summit included eighteen invited scholars (anthropologists, geograph…
Social Capital Theory as an Integrating Theoretical Framework in Technological Disaster Research
Conceptual and empirical research on technological disasters has produced a number of seminal contributions including concepts of recreancy, collective trauma, lifestyle and lifescape change, corrosive community, secondary trauma, and the ecological-symbolic perspective. This article presents social capital theory as a comprehensive framework that incorporates and integrates these key conceptual elements and theories. After presenting fundamental…
The Selendang Ayu Shipwreck and Oil Spill
On December 8, 2004, the Selendang Ayu, a Malaysian-flagged freighter, ran aground off Unalaska Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain. Despite rescue efforts by the United States Coast Guard, six of the Selendang Ayu's crew members died. In addition to the deaths, more than 300,000 gallons of heavy bulk fuel oil spilled into the sea. Much of the oil washed onto the island's shores, into areas providing cultural, recreational, subsistence, and commerc…
Managing Tsunami Risk
This article describes the testing of a model that proposes that people's beliefs regarding the effectiveness of hazard preparedness interact with social context factors (community participation, collective efficacy, empowerment and trust) to influence levels of hazard preparedness. Using data obtained from people living in coastal communities in Alaska and Oregon that are susceptible to experiencing tsunami, structural equation modelling analyse…
Poor design, poor construction in Haiti
Magnitude seven times two
The early recovery in Haiti
Recreancy Revisited
In 1993, Freudenburg suggested the term “recreancy” to refer to behaviors associated with institutional failures, which he distinguished from the consequences of such failures. This article revisits issues related to recreancy associated with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Using qualitative data collected in Cordova, Alaska, between 2002 and 2010, we examine notions about recreancy and technological disasters. Findings highlight perceptions of …
The Exxon Valdez and BP Oil Spills
The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and the 2010 BP oil spill were the largest and most ecologically damaging releases of oil in North American history. This research provides a comparison of the social and mental health impacts of these two major technological disasters. Random samples of residents of Cordova, Alaska, and south Mobile County, Alabama, were collected 5 months after each event. A standardized indicator of event-related stress was used…
Individual Stress, Collective Trauma, and Social Capital in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This article examines persistent social impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) by focusing on the relationship between social capital and chronic individual stress and collective trauma, using Hobfoll's (1988) conservation of resources model of stress as an organizing framework. Data are based on in-depth personal interviews conducted 14 years after the disaster. Analyses focus on the ways in which stress-related behaviors associated w…
Sociocultural and psychosocial impacts of the exxon valdez oil spill
Mitigating Litigating
During the past four decades, a number of social science scholars have conceptualized technological disasters as a social problem. More specifically, research in this arena has identified individual and collective stress as a secondary trauma of processes intended to provide compensation and economic relief from disasters in general and, more specifically, technological disasters. Based on data from a 2013 household telephone survey of 1,216 resi…
Factors influencing stress response avoidance behaviors following technological disasters
Building upon the growing body of empirical social science research examining psychosocial stress following natural, technological, and human-caused disasters, this article presents new research findings specifically regarding stress response avoidance behaviours. In this article, we present a conceptual model of factors contributing to such avoidance behaviours as measured by the Impact of Event Scale (IES) Avoidance subscale. We empirically tes…
Cultivating disaster resilience in rural Oklahoma
Shale Gas Development and Community Distress
This research examines psychosocial stress associated with shale gas development through the narratives of residents and the Revised Impact of Event Scale (IES-R). We carried out our research in three of England's communities impacted by shale gas development. To gather data, we conducted qualitative interviews and engaged in participant observation in all three communities and conducted a quantitative survey of residents. From our qualitative in…
Human-Induced Seismicity
Limbo
Home buyout programmes are designed to permanently relocate households away from areas that are vulnerable to future hazards, though their impacts are not well understood. Among the least understood impacts of these programmes are those related to non-participating households located near buyout zones. Here, we present findings from a study of Oakwood, NY, a peripheral community that was impacted by a buyout programme in a neighbouring community.…
Considering Cumulative Social Effects of Technological Hazards and Disasters
This article describes research designs utilized to study cumulative sociocultural and psychosocial effects of technological hazards and disasters. We apply these designs to two cases: (a) the Exxon Valdez disaster with a focus on Cordova, Alaska, and (b) the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project with a focus on the Gitga'at First Nation in Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada. The Exxon Valdez oil spill began in 1989 with the grounding of …
Citizen perceptions of fracking-related earthquakes
Considering Covid-19 through the Lens of Hazard and Disaster Research
Decades of social science research have taught us much about how individuals, groups, and communities respond to disasters. The findings of this research have helped inform emergency management practices, including disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us-researchers or not-have attempted or are attempting to make sense of what is going on around us. In this article, we assert …
Psychosocial impacts of post-disaster compensation processes
Upheaval”
A growing body of literature demonstrates that both place attachment and social capital play considerable, and likely interdependent, roles in disaster recovery. This paper contributes to our understanding of these constructs by presenting findings from a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of communities impacted by a home buyout program implemented in New York after Hurricane Sandy ( N = 111). Results suggest a dynamic balance between place depen…
“And Then Covid-19 Happened”
There is a limited but growing body of literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic faculty, scholars, and researchers in the US and around the world. In this article, we present findings of a US-based study conceived in 2020 at the onset of COVID-19. In it, we focus on ways in which the pandemic has affected the professional and personal lives of hazard and disaster researchers from the social sciences, public health, engineeri…
A legacy of recreancy
In late August of 2022, Jackson, MS experienced severe flooding leaving approximately 150,000 without access to drinking water. Compounding this acute event is a decades long water crisis, often attributed to government neglect and mismanagement of water services. The chronic technological disaster (water crisis) worsened by a significant acute hazard event (the 2022 flood) in a place that regularly experiences flooding (persistent acute hazard e…
Fractured views
Disaster Management and Resilience (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Risk Perception and Management (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Business (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)