Disruption and stress in an Alaskan fishing community: initial and continuing impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Industrial Crisis Quarterly
- Vol. 6 (3), 235-257
- https://doi.org/10.1177/108602669200600305
Abstract
The study of technological disasters has been characterized by conceptual am biguity and non-ecological considerations of community vulnerability. This re search employs an ecological-symbolic theoretical approach that identifies nat ural resource communities as particularly vulnerable to disasters that contaminate biophysical resources. A longitudinal panel study, including a control community, provides data on disruption and stress experienced by res idents of a small fishing community in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The analysis reveals a continuing pattern of stress and disruptions some 18 months following the spill. The report concludes with a discussion of the specific long- term patterns observed.Keywords
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