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Families Coping With Financial Loss Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Objective: This study examines family strategies for coping and adaptation to social disruption from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DHOS) in south Louisiana. Background: The DHOS is a technological disaster of unprecedented scale and ongoing impact, including the socioeconomic disruption of families. Method: Using data from focus groups, grounded‐theory methods informed a thematic analysis … Continue reading “Families Coping With Financial Loss Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” Learn More
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Family Resilience Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Theory and Evidence Family resilience raises the question of how family units adapt to external shocks. One notable form of such shocks are disasters. Research shows that disasters are occurring with greater frequency and severity throughout the world. Natural and human-made hazards pose an ongoing threat to positive family functioning everywhere, making it difficult to ignore the importance … Continue reading “Family Resilience Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Theory and Evidence” Learn More
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Online community discourse during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: an analysis of Twitter interactions Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, 2010, information was widely broadcast through social media platforms such as Twitter. This study aimed to gain insights into the content and flow of the tweets that had shaped the conversation related to the oil spill within the first 4 months of the rig explosion and … Continue reading “Online community discourse during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: an analysis of Twitter interactions” Learn More
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