Open AccessThe Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware:
Author(s) -
Zachary Cox,
James Kendra,
Tricia Wachtendorf,
Valerie Marlowe
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
delaware journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2639-6378
DOI - 10.32481/djph.2019.10.011
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , research center , engineering , aeronautics , library science , political science , computer science , chemistry , law , crystallography
The Disaster Research Center (DRC) was founded in 1963 to help American government decision makers understand how citizens would respond in times of crisis. Since then, DRC personnel have embarked upon some 700 quick-response deployments to better understand the social and physical aspects of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. This research has taken DRC faculty and students around the world, from New York City, conducting research that explored and documented the city's response to and recovery from 9/11, to the Kathmandu Valley to better understand mothering during disaster evacuation after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. Relevant to the academy, practitioners, and the public, DRC is available to lend its expertise to answer the most pressing questions in disaster science.