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Structured to Partner: School District Collaboration With Nonprofit Organizations in Disaster Response
Author(s) -
Robinson Scott,
Murphy Haley,
Bies Angela
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.1002/rhc3.12047
Subject(s) - emergency management , preparedness , disaster preparedness , emergency response , public relations , variety (cybernetics) , disaster response , test (biology) , business , political science , public administration , medical emergency , medicine , paleontology , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , biology
Emergency preparedness and response are moving from a specialized circle of emergency management professionals and select nonprofit organizations (such as the Red Cross and other national relief organizations) to include a broader variety of organizations not traditionally fulfilling emergency management roles, including schools. It is not clear who among these new potential members of emergency preparedness networks collaborates with whom. We present the results of a survey of Texas public schools and test how structural characteristics are related to collaboration with nonprofits and relief organizations following a local, visible disaster, that of the 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes. Our results show that the propensity to collaborate is related to the size of the districts and its degree of centralization, even while controlling for a district's general collaborative tendency .