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- Title
At the external boundary of a disaster response operation: The dynamics of volunteer inclusion.
- Authors
Johansson, Roine; Danielsson, Erna; Kvarnlöf, Linda; Eriksson, Kerstin; Karlsson, Robin
- Abstract
In the present article, practices of inclusion of different types of volunteers in the response to a large‐scale forest fire in Sweden are studied. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with three types of voluntary actors. The volunteers were organized to different degrees, from members of organizations and participants in emergent groups to organizationally unaffiliated individuals. Organized volunteers were the most easily included, particularly if they were members of voluntary emergency organizations. It was difficult for volunteers lacking relevant organizational affiliation to be included. Disaster response operations are dynamic, conditions change over time, and tensions between different modes, degrees, and levels of inclusion may arise. However, irrespective of changing conditions, practices of inclusion of highly organized volunteers work best.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY management; VOLUNTEER service; COMMUNITY involvement; CRISIS management; DISASTER relief; FORESTS &; forestry; FIRES
- Publication
Journal of Contingencies & Crisis Management, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 4, p519
- ISSN
0966-0879
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-5973.12228