The field of crisis and disaster studies has proliferated over the past two decades. Attention
is bound to grow further as the world negotiates the prolonged challenges of the Covid‐19 …

Coordination theories are characterized primarily by a focus on integration, in which
coordination is aimed at achieving a coherent and unified set of actions. However, in the …

Using the disaster risk reduction paradigm and United Nations principles for post-disaster
interventions, we analyse the actions of the Italian civil protection agency following the April …

Citizens have often been found to converge on disaster sites. Such personal convergence is
increasingly supported by online informational convergence. The adoption of online …

This paper examines what happens when multiple organisations with competing logics
enact social media concurrently and in diverse ways. This is important in organisational …

Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG)
approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local …

As disasters are becoming increasingly datafied, social justice in the context of disasters is
increasingly bound up with data. A data justice lens reveals how data projects and social …

There is growing expectation that local volunteers will play a more integrated role in disaster
response, yet emergent volunteer groups are often 'outsiders' to crisis management …

Malawi is a disaster-prone country with a long history of flooding. Yet disaster response
policies have been largely neglected and disaster risk reduction efforts are mostly donor-led …

In the aftermath of a crisis situation, citizen volunteers play an important role by providing
first aid and immediate relief. Little is known about how response organizations are …