Disaster Research Center

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A disaster research center ( KFS for short ) is a research facility for investigating disasters and major accidents.

history

The world's first disaster research center was the Disaster Research Center . Enrico L. Quarantelli established the research center at Ohio State University in 1963 and relocated it to the University of Delaware there in 1985 .

In 1987 the disaster research center was founded at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . There she worked until 2003 under the direction of its founder Lars Clausen , from 2003 to 2009 under the direction of Wolf R. Dombrowsky and from 2009 to 2011 under the direction of Martin Voss , a student of Lars Clausen, internationally and nationally in research, consulting and training, primarily for clients in the area for public and non-governmental organizations of civil protection , organized seminars and issued publications. The last research project of the KFS at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel ended on February 29, 2012. In 2011 Martin Voss re-established the Disaster Research Center (KFS) at the Free University of Berlin , now with a socio-scientific-interdisciplinary orientation.

Disaster research was carried out at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Kiel from 1998 onwards - at the Institute for Sociology ( Lars Clausen ) and at the Institute for Business Administration ( Jürgen Hauschildt ). The business management part has been continued since 2002 by the “Disaster Research” research area at the Kiel Institute for Crisis Research (Crisis Navigator), a spin-off from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Kiel University, and by the German Society for Crisis Management eV (DGfKM), the professional association of Crisis and disaster managers, promoted.

See also

literature

  • Havidán Rodríguez, William Donner, Joseph E. Trainor (Eds.): Handbook of Disaster Research. Second edition. Springer, Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-63253-7 .

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