Untitled Document. Social disruption from oil spills and spill response. | seri-us.org. Social disruption from oil spills and spill response. Project Summary The objective of this project is to design a process to help Area Committee planners anticipate and plan for the socially disruptive, or “human dimensions” of spills. This will be a procedure in which planners and other stakeholders are led through a systematic exploration of the possible human impacts. To develop this process, we will first construct an organized list (or taxonomy) of human impacts to spills.
We will do this by mining the existing literature and interviewing Area Committee members in three different regions, collecting their insights into how oil spills could impact human communities. Second, to understand how particular qualities of communities determine the way in which impacts are brought about, we will use vulnerability theory. This involves characterizing sensitivities and adaptive responses of the people, groups, institutions, and communities that are impacted by a spill event.
Journals: Direct Online Access. Journal of Social Issues. Assessment of Oil Spill Response Planning and Performance | seri-us.org. Project Summary The primary goal of this project was to develop a framework to guide the selection of metrics for assessing spill responses, prior to a spill response during response planning, by a broad range of potentially affected and interested parties. Our concern was with the process by which those who have a stake in spill response can collectively discuss: (a) the objectives that should guide spill response and (b) the criteria or metrics that should be used to assess performance with respect to the objectives.
To achieve this over-arching project goal we organized the project around a series of literature review and empirical research activities to achieve four objectives. As part of each objective we have prepared reports, book chapters, and articles. The objectives were to: We learned that there are a small number of perspectives that explain different ways that stakeholders express their objectives for spill response - and that there are some important differences among them. What Responsibility Do Social Media Users Have During a Crisis? Peter Shankman is the founder of HARO and is generally regarded as one of the top social media consultants and marketing speakers working today. His clients include Saudi Aramco, NASA, The U.S. Government, Haworth, Disney, Foley-Hoag, American Express, and countless others. He blogs at shankman.com. From the moment the first jolt was felt in Tokyo, there was no doubt — the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent tragedy was going to play out first on the social web, and second on television.
Within an hour of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake, which occurred on a bright afternoon in Japan, Twitter updates were flying out of Asia at the rate of over 1,200 per minute, while Facebook posts, photos, videos, and blog updates were streaming in just behind. As my CNN News alert hit my iPad, my first inclination wasn’t to turn on the TV, but rather go to the Facebook walls of my many friends in Tokyo to see if they were alright. With that awesome ability, however, comes responsibility.