Citation

Rosenthal U. Int. J. Mass Emerg. Disasters 1988; 6(3): 233-251.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, International Sociological Association, International Research Committee on Disasters)

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Abstract

It appears to be just one of those typical specimens of disaster folklore that the first plane to fly over the flooded area of the southwestern part of the Netherlands in February 1953 was a U.S. aircraft with a group of eager disaster researchers aboard. There is more truth to the fact that the flood of February 1953 led to a remarkable U.S.-sponsored effort to undertake an extensive research project, resulting in the four volume Studies in Holland Flood Disaster 1953. Since 1955, the Studies in Holland Flood Disaster 1953 stand as the most important Dutch contribution to the international disaster literature.