Title

Interstate Partnerships in Emergency Management: Emergency Management Assistance Compact in Response to Catastrophic Disasters

Authors

Authors

N. Kapucu; M. E. Augustin;V. Garayev

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Abstract

The Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) is a mutual aid agreement and partnership that allows states to assist one another in responding to natural and man-made disasters, often in advance of federal disaster assistance. This article examines EMAC's response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in order to address the significant need for analysis of emergency management at the state level. A content analysis of news reports, government documents, and reports from a number of institutions was performed to determine the volume and direction of EMAC's performance and its transactions during the response operations. The authors find a lack of EMAC training among responders, potentially reducing communication and coordination and the efficiency and effectiveness of response operations. A network analysis assessed the relationships among the responding organizations to coordinate their emergency response operations.

Journal Title

Public Administration Review

Volume

69

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Document Type

Article

First Page

297

Last Page

313

WOS Identifier

WOS:000262944000014

ISSN

0033-3352

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