Disaster Research C n e etr PRELIMINARY PAPER
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DETERMINANTS OF BUSINESS DISASTER
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PREPAREDNESS I TWO U.S.
METROPOLITAN AREAS
James M.
Dahlhamer &Melvin J. D'Souza
1995
Determinants of Business Disaster Preparedness in
Two U.S. Metropolitan Areas
James M. Dahlhamer
Melvin J. D'Souza
Disaster Research Center
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716 USA
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Central
Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 21-23, 1995
The authors wish to thank Dr. Joanne M. Nigg and Dr. Kathleen J.
Tierney for suggestions and comments. This paper was undertaken with support from the National Center for Earthquake Engineering
Research, Grant No. 926301B, Wrban Seismic Risk Assessment:
Assessing Earthquake Impacts on Business Activity in the Greater
Memphis Area," Dr. Joanne M. Nigg and Dr. Kathleen J. Tierney, CoPrincipal Investigators; and the National Science Foundation, Grant
No. BCS-9322386, l*EconomicConsequences Due to Lifeline Failures:
Lessons from the Heartland Floods of 1993 for Earthquake Recovery
Planning," Dr. Joanne M. Nigg and Dr. Kathleen J. Tierney, CoPrincipal Investigators. The ideas expressed here are those of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the National
Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, the National Science
Foundation, the Disaster Research Center, or the other researchers mentioned here.
Determinants of Business Disaster Preparedness in
Two U.S. Metropolitan Areas
James M. Dahlhamer
Melvin J. D'Souza
Disaster Research Center
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716 USA
ABSTRACT
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Although there has been a proliferation of Ifhowto1* in recent years, there has been very little documentation of the variation in and determinants of business disaster preparedness.
The few studies