Picou, J.S., Gill, D.A., Dyer, C.L. and Curry, E., 1992. Disruption and stress in an Alaskan fishing community: initial and continuing impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Industrial Crisis Quarterly, 6: 235-257.The study of technological disasters has been characterized by conceptual ambiguity and non-ecological considerations of community vulnerability. This research employs an ecological-symbolic theoretical approach that identifies natural resource communities as particularly vulnerable to disasters that contaminate biophysical resources. A longitudinal panel study, including a control community, provides data on disruption and stress experienced by residents of a small fishing community in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The analysis reveals a continuing pattern of stress and disruptions some 18 months at SIMON FRASER LIBRARY on June 11, 2015 oae.sagepub.com Downloaded from 236 following the spill. The report concludes with a discussion of the specific longterm patterns observed.

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