OPEN SOURCE RESOURCES
Rural Emergency Management
Brennan, M. A., and Courtney G. Flint. 2007. Uncovering the Hidden Dimensions of Rural Disaster Mitigation: Capacity Building Through Community Emergency Response Teams. Southern Rural Sociology 22(2): 111-126. http://communitynatres.nres.uiuc.edu/Publications/bf2007.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Bryant, Dianna. 2009, April 8. Challenges of Rural Emergency Management. http://www.homeland1.com/disaster-preparedness/articles/480917-Challenges-of-rural-emergency-management [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Flint, Courtney, and Mark Brennan. 2006. Community Emergency Response Teams: From Disaster Responders to Community Builders. Rural Realities 1(3). http://www.ruralsociology.org/pubs/ruralrealities/RuralRealities1-3.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Meit, Michael, Thomas Briggs, and Alene Kennedy. 2008. Urban to Rural Evacuation: Planning for Rural Population Surge. Bethesda: MD: Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. http://www.norc.org/nr/rdonlyres/d0577161-5cff-4f4a-a243-2bb67826a256/0/urbantoruralevacuationplanningforruralpopulationsurge_finalreport.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
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United States Department of Agriculture. 2008. Rural Homeland Security Resources for Local Officals. http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/homeland_security.htm [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Rural Emergency Medical Services and Hospitals
Barry, Bruce. 2005. The Challenges Facing Rural Hospitals and Emergency Management. American College of Emergency Physicians Disaster Medicine Section Newsletter 14(2). http://www.acep.org/ACEPmembership.aspx?id=39418 [Accessed April 09, 2009].
Furbee, Paul M., Jeffery H. Coben, Sharon K. Smyth, William G. Manley, Daniel E. Summers, Nels D. Sanddal, Teri L. Sanddal, James C. Helmkamp, Rodney L. Kimble, Ronald C. Althouse, and Aaron T. Kocsis. 2006. Realities of Rural Emergency Medical Services Disaster Preparedness. Prehospital Disaster Medicine 21(2): 64-70. http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu/21-2%20PDFs/furbee.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
McGinnis, Kevin K. 2004. Rural and Frontier Emergency Medical Services: Agenda for the Future. Kansas City: National Rural Health Association. http://www.citmt.org/download/rfemsagenda.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Schur, Claudia L. 2004. Understanding the Role of the Rural Hospital Emergency Department in Responding to Bioterrorist Attacks and Other Emergencies: A Review of the Literature and Guide to the Issues. Bethesda, MD: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. http://www.norc.org/NR/rdonlyres/66497628-EB22-4688-9471-EF21E2141F4E/0/WalshCtr2004_LitRev_final.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Rural Interest Group. 2002. Rural Emergency Medical Service. http://www.ruralfamilymedicine.org/Rural%20Systems/ems.htm [Accessed April 14, 2009].
United States Department of Health and Human Services-Health Resources and Services Administration. No date. Rural Emergency Medical Services & Trauma Technical Assistance Center. http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/ruralems/index.htm [Accessed April 16, 2009].
United States Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Rural Health Policy. 2002. Rural Communities and Emergency Preparedness. ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/RuralPreparedness.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
University of Pittsburgh. 2009. Center for Rural Health Practice. http://www.prepare.pitt.edu/rural.htm [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Rural Environmental Protection
Cowie, Frederick J., Monty Elder, Rayna Leibowitz. No date. Realistic Approaches to Rural and Frontier Hazardous Materials Risk Management. http://dma.mt.gov/des/Library/Frontier_HazMat.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
Rural Fire Protection
Gamache, Sharon, John R. Hall, Jr., Marty Ahrens, Geri Penney, and Ed Kirtley. 2007. Mitigation of the Rural Fire Problem: Strategies Based on Original Research and Adaptation of Existing Best Practices. Emmitsburg, MD: United States Fire Administration. http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/research/other/rural-mitigation.shtm [Accessed January 22, 2009].
Gamache, Sharon, John R. Hall, Jr., Marty Ahrens, Geri Penney, and Ed Kirtley. 2007. Public Fire Education Planning for Rural Communities: A Five-Step Process. Emmitsburg, MD: United States Fire Administration. http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/FiveStepProcessRural.pdf [Accessed January 22, 2009].
Granville, Sue. 2003. Part-Time Firefighters. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Social Research. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/10/18449/28519 [Accessed January 28, 2009].
Maclean, Douglas. 2002. Retained, Auxiliary and Volunteer Firefighters in the Scottish Fire Service. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Central Research Unit. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2002/04/14468/retained-firefighters-pdf [Accessed January 28, 2009].
United States Fire Administration. 2002. A Needs Assessment of the U.S. Fire Service. Emmitsburg, MD: United States Fire Administration. http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/fa-240.pdf [Accessed February 17, 2009].
Rural Transportation
Transportation Research Board. 2008. A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_525v13.pdf [Accessed April 16, 2009].
United States Federal Highway Administration. 2001. Planning for Transportation in Rural Areas. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Transportation. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/Planning/rural/planningfortrans/index.html [Accessed February 22, 2009].
RESTRICTED ACCESS RESOURCES
Aguirre, B.E., Rogelio Saenz, John Edmiston, Nan Yang, Elsa Agramonte, and Dietra L. Stuart. 1993. The Human Ecology of Tornadoes. Demography 30(4): 623-633.
Augustine, Jim, and John T. Schoettmer. 2005. Evacuation of a Rural Community Hospital: Lessons Learned from an Unplanned Event. Disaster Management & Response 3(3): 68-72.
Cox, Robin S. 2007. Capacity Building Approaches to Emergency Management in Rural Communities: Recommendations from Survivors of the British Columbia Wildfires, 2003. International Journal of Emergency Management 4(2): 250-268.
Cross, John A. 2001. Megacities and Small Towns: Different Perspectives on Hazard Vulnerability. Environmental Hazards 3(2): 63-80.
Flint, Courtney G., and M. A. Brennan. 2007. Rural Communities and Disasters: Research from the Southern United States. Social Rural Sociology 22(2): 1-5.
Horan, Thomas A., Denise McCabe, Richard Burkhard, and Benjamin Schooley. 2005. Performance Information Systems for Emergency Response: Field Examination and Simulation of End-to-End Rural Response Systems. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 2(1): Article 4.
Janssen, D. 2006. Disaster Planning in Rural America. Public Manager 35(3): 40-43.
Lozier, John. 1976. Volunteer Fire Departments and Community Mobilization. Human Organization 35(4): 345-354.
Manley, William G., Paul M. Furbee, Jeffery H. Coben, Sharon K. Smyth, Daniel E. Summers, Ronald C. Althouse, Rodney L. Kimble, Aaron T. Kocsis, and James C. Helmkamp. 2006. Realities of Disaster Preparedness in Rural Hospitals. Journal of Emergency Nursing 4(3): 80-87.
McGee, Tara K., and Stefanie Russell. 2003. “It’s Just a Natural Way of Life…” An Investigation of Wildfire Preparedness in Rural Australia. Environmental Hazards 5: 1-12.
Mitchell, J. T. 2006. Conflicting Threat Perceptions at a Rural Agricultural Fair. Tourism Management 27: 1298-1307.
Perkins, Kenneth B. 1987. Volunteer Fire Departments: Community Integration, Autonomy and Survival. Human Organization 46(4): 342-348.
Perkins, Kenneth B., and C. W. Metz. 1988. Note on Commitment and Community among Volunteer Firefighters. Sociological Inquiry 58(1): 117-121.
Sapien, Robert E., and Andrew Allen. 2001. Emergency Preparation in Schools: A Snapshot of a Rural State. Pediatric Emergency Care 17(5): 329-333.
Simpson, Charles R. 1996. A Fraternity of Danger: Volunteer Fire Companies and the Contradictions of Modernization. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 55(1): 17-34.
Thompson, A. M., III. 1993. Rural Emergency Medical Volunteers and their Communities: A demographic Comparison. Journal of Community Health 18(6): 379-392.
Waugh, William L., Jr. 1994. Regionalizing Emergency Management: Counties as State and Local Government. Public Administration Review 54(3): 253-258.
Dianna H. Bryant Institute for Rural Emergency Management
Executive Director University of Central Missouri
http://www.ucmo.edu/irem