Naim Kapucu, Alpaslan Özerdem, Abdul-Akeem Sadiq

Broschiertes Buch

Managing Emergencies and Crises: Global Perspectives

Beschreibung

As the scale, frequency, and intensity of crises faced by the world have dramatically increased over the last decade, there is a critical need for a careful stocktaking on the knowledge of managing disasters. Managing Emergencies and Crises: Global Perspectives clearly and comprehensively explores the most important concepts of emergency and crisis management (such as mitigation, protection, prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, vulnerability, and risk assessment) and illustrates them with cases involving disasters and emergencies worldwide. Substantially revised, the Second Edition has been reorganized and includes two new and timely chapters on terrorism and emergency management and public health emergencies and crises. It also provides an emphasis on management and leadership and cross-sector governance from interdisciplinary and global perspectives. Key Features: - Two new chapters: Terrorism and Emergency Management and Public Health Emergencies and Crises. - Diverse scholarly perspectives are presented to guide readers' understanding of various concepts in the emergency and crisis management field. - Rich and diverse case studies illustrate how various stakeholders, including emergency program managers, respond in crisis and emergency management situation. - Navigate eBook Access (included with the print text) provides online or offline access to the digital textbook

Autor

Naim Kapucu, Ph.D., is Pegasus Professor of Public Administration and Policy and former Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is the founding director of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management (CPNM) at UCF (2008-2011). He is also Joint faculty at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs and the Center for Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES). Dr. Kapucu received Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy, Democratic Resilience award jointly hosted by Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia in 2021. Dr. Kapucu's core research interests are network governance and leadership, decision-making in complex environments, organizational learning and design, and social inquiry and public policy. Dr. Kapucu has published widely in areas of public administration, network governance, and emergency and crisis management. His work has been published in highly ranked journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Journal of Policy Studies, Administration & Society, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, The American Review of Public Administration, and Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy, and Management, among others. He teaches network governance, leadership in public service, network analysis, and methodology courses. Dr. Kapucu served and currently serves in several journals’ editorial board including Public Administration Review. He is also founding associate editor of the journal of Complexity, Governance, & Networks. Prior to joining UCF, Dr. Kapucu received his Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2003. Prior to that, he earned a Master of Public Policy and Management degree from Heinz College's School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1997. (Longer bio and current CV are available at https://ccie.ucf.edu/profile/naim-kapucu/)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 188mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781284232042
• ISBN-10: 1284232042
• Artikelnr.: 62761994