Emergent organizational network
Emergent organizational networks ( emergent organizational networks , EMON) are networks that are ad hoc ( emergent form). They are organizational interdependencies with a flat hierarchy , who in the event of a local disaster take on aid, rescue and recovery activities on their own, knowledgeable about the area, flexible and resilient.
They were first researched and described by the disaster sociologist Enrico Quarantelli in the USA . They occur, for example, during earthquakes , floods or major fires and are often extremely helpful because they are quickly on the spot. EMON often does not provide for tightly managed civil protection , except when it has been severely affected; then a short-lived disaster culture can even develop . The EMON are often overlooked by the journalists who hurry up. In jaded or brutalized societies, as is often the case as a result of a dictatorship or civil war, helping EMON only appear in smaller communities ; rather, organized looting is to be feared.
In German disaster control , the term so-called walk-in volunteers is more common than EMON . The authorities and organizations responsible for dealing with the damage event have the task of deploying the walk-in volunteers appropriately, but also of looking after them. Experience with them was made in Germany particularly during the Elbe flood in August 2002 ; in an international context, they can be found in the most varied of forms. A special form are the people who work in programs such as food for work .
A practical-sociological approach is to recruit such volunteers from the diverse and disruptive onlookers at accident sites ( Wolf R. Dombrowsky ).
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- ^ " Disaster- Sociological Glossary", in: Lars Clausen u. a., Terrible social processes , Münster: LIT 2003