ABSTRACT
This final chapter will take what we have learned about how the potential victims of disasters organize chaos and attempt to look at alternative forms of disaster management. This will not be an easy task, as nearly all disaster management today falls under the rubric of public sector administration. If you ask the thousands of public servants who in one way or another are involved in disaster management, I doubt that any could conceive of another way to deal with disasters. What you will hear said by both senior managers and those at the front lines of disaster management is that what we have today may not be the best and certainly can be improved, but it is all we have. Some others fall back to the simplistic arguments that try to justify these public agencies on the basis of tradition or political expedience or by asserting that the organizational forms now in place work, but as we now know, they do not work as well as can be expected. The reason appears to be based on the fact that there is a large gap between how members of these organizations, however well meaning, perceive of and deal with disasters, and how we, the potential victims, deal with disasters.
