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An analytic approach to planning the response to technological disasters

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA

William A. Wallace

Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Major natural or accidental catastrophes are perhaps the most unstructured processes with which organizations must deal. Emergency management agen cies historically have been controlled by individuals who rely on experience in delivering the services they manage. However, the rapidly rising costs of emer gency services coupled with increasing constraints on all public budgets have forced many public managers to shift their attention from an exclusive focus on effectiveness to one that weighs efficiency as well. The authors develop a model to aid in planning responses to technological disasters such as releases of hazardous substances. They apply the model to chemical spills in New York Harbor.

Organization & Environment, Vol. 2, No. 3-4, 257-270 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/108602668800200305


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