Emergency management: Gauging the extensiveness and quality of public-and private-sector collaboration at the local level

Abstract

This empirically based study compares the extensiveness and perceived quality of public and private emergency managementa-related collaborations at the grassroots level, based on a statewide survey of Florida county and city officials. The extensiveness of local officialsa' involvement in private-sector collaboration is on par with their emergency managementa-related interactions with public-sector entities. County officials are more likely than city officials to report higher quality networks with both public and private partners. First responders rate the quality of their intergovernmental public-sector collaborations higher than their generalist counterparts; the results are more varied in terms of each groupa's private-sector network quality assessments. © The Author(s) 2011.