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Elements of Resilience After the World Trade Center Disaster

Reconstituting New York City's Emergency Operations Centre

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ID4922379
AuthorsJames M Kendra, James Kendra (0000-0003-0888-1466, University of North Texas), Tricia Wachtendorf (0000-0002-7771-5069, University of Delaware)
Year2003
Volume27
Issue1
Pages37-53
Publication date2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDisasters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-7717.00218
PMID12703151
OpenAlexW2122526583
LanguageEN
Citations received101
References cited14

In this paper we examine the reconstitution of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) after its destruction in the World Trade Center attack, using that event to highlight several features of resilience. The paper summarises basic EOC functions, and then presents conceptions of resilience as understood from several disciplinary perspectives, noting that work in these fields has sought to understand how a natural or social system that experiences disturbance sustains its functional processes. We observe that, although the physical EOC facility was destroyed, the organisation that had been established to manage crises in New York City continued, enabling a response that drew on the resources of New York City and neighbouring communities, states and the federal government. Availability of resources - which substituted for redundancy of personnel, equipment and space - pre-existing relationships that eased communication challenges as the emergency developed and the continuation of organisational patterns of response integration and role assignments were among the factors that contributed to resilience following the attack

Business · Computer security · Emergency response · Geography · Government (linguistics · Medical emergency · Natural disaster · Political science · Public relations · Redundancy (engineering · Resilience (materials science · Work (physics · World trade center · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Law · Medicine · Public Administration

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