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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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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.
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“However, preparation capabilities are not only important for HROs but also for resilient organizations (e.g., Kendra and Wachtendorf 2003;Somers 2009).”
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“One of the most important principles to facilitate the collective sensemaking process is 'bricolage' (Weick 1993): the capability to improvise and to solve problems creatively (Kendra and Wachtendorf 2003).”
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“In sum, it can be said that organizations need slack resources (Kendra and Wachtendorf 2003;Vaelikangas and Romme 2013;Vogus and Sutcliffe 2007)-a cushion of spare resources which can be flexibly used (Bourgeois 1981).”
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“In this respect, organizations also need some degree of redundancy such as unused capacity, multiple sourcing, or parallel processes (see, e.g., Denhardt and Denhardt 2010;Kendra and Wachtendorf 2003;Pal et al. 2014), which allow for adequate functioning even if parts of the organization fail.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kendra, J. M., & Wachtendorf, T.
- Affiliations
- University of North Texas (US)
- University of Delaware (US)
- Venue
- Disasters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 37-53
- ISSN
- 0361-3666 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-7717
- OpenAlex
- W2122526583
- Cited by
- 574
- References
- 29
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- FWCI
- 22.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Disasters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Safety and Risk Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Keywords
- resilience, World Trade Center attacks, emergency operations center, emergency management, crisis response, resource availability, inter-organisational collaboration, role assignment, response integration, New York City
- MeSH terms
- Aircraft, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Planning, Emergency Medical Services, Humans, Interinstitutional Relations, New York City, Rescue Work, Terrorism
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