SIG: Crises and Disasters
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The Crises and Disasters Special Integration Group was launched...
Focus of the Crises and Disasters SIG
This SIG uses a systemic approach to look at demographic characteristics, risk, sensitivity, social ties, and then the concern over risk coping ability, attitudes towards risk, and examining threat behavior, hazard characteristics and situational constraints. The SIG research is concerned with characteristics of people responding to crises and disasters including prior beliefs, experience, education, adaptive plans, personal traits, and personal resources. Situational factors to elaborate in terms of physical cues, social behavior, and miscommunication, and then risk information are suggested areas of inquiry.
The SIG also focuses on the coherence of AR and other SIGs in the ISSS. The last focus was on the Critical Social Theory perspective that some action researchers share with Critical Systems Thinking.
Chairs, Members and Reading Materials
Members
Reading Materials
Below are reading lists of seminal papers in AR as well as the latest publications in the field of AR from a systems thinking perspective:
Links to videos
Below are links to videos from discussion sessions attended by ISSS members discussing their use of AR.