This obviously revealed the limitations of disaster management by the government.
"So that's when people realise what they have lost and the limitations of disaster response, that things aren't going to happen as quickly and things take time".
Limitations: post-disaster study limited options for longitudinal research.
As the chief information officer of Save the Children, he watched as his tight budget revealed more limitations whenever a disaster struck a poor country and created enormous needs.
The experience at Fukushima "demonstrates the limitations of human disaster-preparedness and emergency measures," even "in a highly organized, high-tech country like Japan".
This is a recognised potential limitation of the disaster literature. 1 It was not possible, for obvious reasons, to compare the responding tsunami survivors participating in the online survey with a non-responding group of survivors.
For disaster exercises, limitations of field operation drills such as communications, coordination, assignment of responsibilities, and postevent mitigation priorities were noted, and tabletop drills provided additional benefits for these settings.
Obviously, common hygiene standards could not be preserved during initial care in local settings due to the magnitude of the disaster, imposing limitations on the type and quality of services that could be provided.
An important limitation, inherent in every disaster study, is that participants knew the purpose of the study since it was explained in the consent form.
Yet even as nearly 60 federal agencies from the Defense Department to the Internal Revenue Service were on hand for the response to and recovery from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, FEMA confronted the limitations of bureaucracy in any disaster.
