Overall, my quest in writing this book was to go beyond temporary fads, buzz words, or ideological arguments and provide a methodological and empirical platform from which to initiate a critical analysis of disaster management. The model, which I have proposed in the last chapter, is not an ideological position. It is drawn from a sophisticated empirical analysis of an unusual and comprehensive set of data. This means the social process model is, like all research models, open to criticism using the general rules of scientific testing and revalidation.