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Empirical Analysis Of Volunteer Convergence Following The 2011 Tornado Disaster In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Emmett Lodree, Lauren B. Davis
Empirical Analysis Of Volunteer Convergence Following The 2011 Tornado Disaster In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Emmett Lodree, Lauren B. Davis
Dr. Lauren B Davis
Volunteer convergence refers to the mass movement of volunteers
toward affected areas following disaster events. Emergency
management professionals sometimes refer to volunteer convergence as
``the disaster within the disaster,'' which is an indicator of the
tremendous challenge that managing the post-disaster influx of
spontaneous volunteers presents. In order to develop effective
strategies for managing volunteer convergence, it is imperative that
emergency managers and coordinators understand the nature of
convergence from a quantitative perspective. This paper presents a
case study of volunteer convergence following the April 2011 tornado
disaster in Tuscaloosa, …