Communication and Coordination Networks in the 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquakes

Diğer Uluslararası Fon Programları, 2023 - 2024

This Quick Response study will seek to map the communication and coordination networks

that functioned in response to the Kahmaranmaras Earthquakes of February 6, 2023 that had

devastating consequences for 10 provinces and tens of millions of people in Turkey and 8

provinces and hundreds of thousands of people in neighboring Syria. Communication and

coordination are central functions in the mobilization of response operations under critical

time constraints when life is at risk in disaster-degraded conditions. Framed within the

literature of complex adaptive systems, this study specifically focuses on processes of

decision making among interacting organizations operating in urgent events and the flow of

information within and among them that guides action.