Panic Buying and Environmental Disasters: Management and Mitigation Approaches

323 Pages·2022·4.773 MB·English

by  S.M. Yasir Arafat, Sujita Kumar Kar, Russell Kabir

S.M. Yasir Arafat
Sujita Kumar Kar
Russell Kabir   Editors
Panic
Buying and
Environmental
Disasters
Management and Mitigation
Approaches
Panic Buying and Environmental Disasters
S. M. Yasir Arafat • Sujita Kumar Kar
Russell Kabir
Editors
Panic Buying and
Environmental Disasters
Management and Mitigation Approaches
Editors
S. M. Yasir Arafat Sujita Kumar Kar
Department of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry
Enam Medical College and Hospital King George's Medical University
Dhaka, Bangladesh Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Russell Kabir
School of Allied Health
Anglia Ruskin University
Chelmsford, UK
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Preface
Panic buying is a common human reaction to disasters, but it is notoriously difficult
to comprehend and control, especially in times of disasters. Recent evidence implies
that the COVID-19 pandemic, war, earthquake, flood, or public health emergency
(SARS, MARS) trigger the event. As the effects of environmental crisis take their
toll, panic buying falls by the wayside. In addition to the core events triggered by
environmental disaster, panic buying causes a series of events on its own. Every big
environmental disaster could exacerbate panic buying, so disaster management
should include a component for dealing with panic buying. The occurrences of
panic buying and large environmental disasters are linked in this book, with an
emphasis on the specific period and technique for prevention. It’s the first of its type
strategy to organize potential public health emergencies and panic buying manage-
ment concepts in the event of a disaster. It starts with an overview of panic buying
to establish the concept in a comprehensive way. Then environmental, physical, and
mental events that occur during a disaster with temporal relations are discussed. The
theoretical basis of panic buying during disasters has been mentioned subsequently
to conceptualize the context vividly. The events of panic buying during a disaster
have been correlated with the severity, nature, and stage of the disaster in the chap-
ters that follow. The book focuses on the prevention strategies with special attention
to the pre-disaster, disaster, and post-disaster phases where it emphasizes the rou-
tine inclusion of panic buying prevention measures as an emergency preparedness
system. Finally, the book encloses the preventive role of public health administra-
tion during a disaster to reduce the overall adversities and control panic buying with
additional help from artificial intelligence. We tried our best to reduce overlaps
among the chapters, albeit there are some overlaps that had to be considered to
maintain the individuality of the chapters. Moreover, as an emerging issue, reveal-
ing a deeper insight is challenging. Nevertheless, our attempt would create baseline
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avenues for further research and exploration on the identified aspects of disaster and
panic buying. This book would be a useful resource material for academics,
researchers, and policy makers to provide a theoretical basis for panic buying during
disasters and episodes of emergencies.
Dhaka, Bangladesh S. M. Yasir Arafat
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Sujita Kumar Kar
Chelmsford, UK Russell Kabir
Contents
1 The Concept of and Risk Factors for Panic Buying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rakesh Singh, Pragyan Basnet, and Rohit Bhasink Shrestha
2 Behavioural Events During Environmental Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Deblina Roy and Sankalp Dixit
3 Panic Buying and Its Intrinsic Connection to Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Snehil Gupta, Akash Kumar, and Jyotsna Jain
4 Social Structure, Security, Disaster, and Panic Buying . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Pawan Sharma and Manjila Pokharel
5 Disaster, Health, and Panic Buying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Vikas Menon, Ashvini Vengadavaradan, and Abdul Faheem
6 Disaster and Consumption Behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sujita Kumar Kar, Aditya Agrawal, and Nitika Singh
7 From Molecules to the Marketplace: The Theoretical Basis for
Panic Buying During Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Ravi Philip Rajkumar
8 Characteristics of Panic Buying During Disaster: Pre-disaster,
Disaster, and Post- disaster Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Rakesh Singh, Seema Khadka, and Kamal Gautam
9 Communication During Disasters: Role in Contributing to and
Prevention of Panic Buying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
S. M. Yasir Arafat, Saira Hakeem, Sujita Kumar Kar, Rakesh Singh,
Anisha Shrestha, and Russell Kabir
10 Disaster, Public Health, and Panic Buying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Haniya Zehra Syed, Brijesh Sathian, Russell Kabir,
and Maneesha-Varghese Pellissery
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11 Measurement of Panic Buying in Individual and Social Level . . . . . . 195
Tamkeen Saleem, Syeda Ayat-e-Zainab Ali, and S. M. Yasir Arafat
12 Prevention Strategies of Panic Buying During Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . 211
S. M. Yasir Arafat, Rakesh Singh, Vikas Menon, and Kum Fai Yuen
13 Disaster Preparedness and Panic Buying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Pritha Roy and Jhimli Chatterjee
14 Disaster, E-Commerce, and Panic Buying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Shemaila Saleem and Tamkeen Saleem
15 Public Health Administration in Controlling Panic Buying
During Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Divya Vinnakota, Madhini Sivasubramanian, and Ali Davod Parsa
16 Artificial Intelligence and Prevention of Panic Buying During
Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Abhishek Ramesh and Debanjan Banerjee
17 Panic Buying and Special Conditions During Disasters:
Extreme Age, Marginalized People, People with Chronic
Disease, and People with Alcoholism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Jigyansa Ipsita Pattnaik, Udit Kumar Panda, and Jayaprakash
Russell Ravan
18 Panic Buying and Health Literacy During
Environmental Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Anila Mubashir, Nadia Shafique, and Erum Bibi
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
List of Figures
Fig. 1.1 Causative model of PB. (Adopted from Arafat et al., 2020c) .................5
Fig. 2.1 Phases of disaster ..................................................................................26
Fig. 2.2 Response phases to disasters .................................................................27
Fig. 2.3 Lazarus model application to panic buying as a response
to stress by pandemic ............................................................................29
Fig. 3.1 Factors of panic buying during the disaster.
(Rajkumar & Arafat, 2021; Yuen et al., 2020) ......................................48
Fig. 4.1 Diagrammatic representation of ecological systems theory.
(Bronfenbrenner, 1992) .........................................................................67
Fig. 5.1 Levels of global supply chains ..............................................................78
Fig. 5.2 Disaster-related antecedents to panic buying ........................................81
Fig. 5.3 Range of psychological reactions to COVID-19 ..................................86
Fig. 6.1 Classification of disasters. (WHO & EHA, 1998) ................................98
Fig. 6.2 The three major phases of disaster. (WHO & EHA, 2002) ..................98
Fig. 6.3 Factors influencing complex behavioral model ..................................103
Fig. 6.4 Types of emergent behaviors ..............................................................105
Fig. 6.5 Psychology of consumption behavior .................................................107
Fig. 7.1 Schematic representation of the theoretized factors
influencing panic buying during a disaster. (Adapted
from Rajkumar & Arafat, 2021) ..........................................................125
Fig. 8.1 Casual model of panic buying. (Adapted from
Arafat et al., 2020c, pp. 5) ..................................................................144
Fig. 8.2 Attributing factors of panic buying during different
phases of disaster. (Adapted from Arafat et al., 2021c) ......................147
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