ABSTRACT
Following a natural onset disaster, the political, economic and geographic landscape can drastically shift. The number of actors responding to crises on the ground often multiplies, seemingly overnight. Leadership is trickily defined between who should be in charge versus who actually commands authority; information is often uncoordinated or lags a few days behind events on the ground, often rendering it less than helpful; assumptions about what people need and what they can actually do themselves may be inaccurate, even when self-reported.
