Brenda D. Phillips, Jenny Mincin

eBook, PDF

Disaster Recovery (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

Now in its third edition, Disaster Recovery continues to serve as the most comprehensive book of its kind and will span the core areas that recovery managers and voluntary organizations must tackle after a disaster. It remains the go-to textbook for how to address and work through housing, donations, volunteer management, environmental recovery, historic and cultural resources, psychological needs, infrastructure and lifelines, economic recovery, public sector recovery, and much more. Special features include instructor's manual, PowerPoints, a free consultation with the authors upon adoption of the text; updated discussion questions; references and recommended readings; and updated resources for each chapter.

New to the 3rd Edition

• A new co-author, Jenny Mincin, a recognized expert in international disaster recovery with direct field experience in emergency management, disaster recovery, and humanitarian relief to this text.
• New case examples from recent disasters and humanitarian crises will provide updated content and offer familiar events to readers (e.g., Hurricane María, the COVID-19 pandemic, active attackers).
• Increased visibility to the highest risk populations facing disaster recovery including refugees, immigrants, and asylees.
• New chapter on case management, which will be of particular interest to faculty in human services degree programs.
• Climate change as a hazard that requires adjustment before a disaster and during recovery.
• A broadened consideration of recovery needs including refugees and asylees fleeing both conflict and consensus disasters.

This is an invaluable textbook in the field of recovery preparedness and execution.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• E-Mail des Verlags für Barrierefreiheitsfragen: [e-mail]
• Seitennummerierung folgt dem gedruckten Werk
• Kurze Alternativtexte für nicht-textuelle Inhalte vorhanden
• Navigierbarer Index mit direktem Zugriff auf Indexbegriffe
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Brenda Phillips is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University South Bend. With over 43 years of higher education experience, she has served as a Dean, Associate Dean, Graduate Program Coordinator (Fire and Emergency Management), and Founding Director (Women's Studies). Dr. Phillips has served as a subject matter expert for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Office of the Federal Coordinator of Meteorology, and the National Council on Disability on issues surrounding disasters. Her published research, funded by the National Science Foundation, can be found in a variety of journals including the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Disaster Prevention, Disasters, Humanity and Society, the Journal of Emergency Management, Natural Hazards Review, and Environmental Hazards and as chapters of numerous books in the profession of emergency management and the discipline of disaster science. Dr. Phillips earned the Blanchard Award for excellence in emergency management education and the Myers Award for work on the effects of disasters on women. The International Women's Hall of Fame for Emergency Management and Homeland Security inducted her in 2013. She has led efforts to launch numerous emergency management programs in the U.S. and has consulted on the same in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Costa Rica, Canada, and Mexico.

Jenny Mincin is Associate Professor in Health and Human Services at State University of New York Empire State College. She has over twenty-five years of experience in the government, non-governmental, and academic sectors both nationally and internationally and is a specialist in disaster human services and humanitarian crisis work, refugees and immigrants, and vulnerable and special needs populations. Jenny has worked for the City of New York, International Rescue Committee, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency among others. In addition to teaching and researching fulltime at SUNY Empire State College, she oversees the Certificate in Crisis Prevention and Intervention program and serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Rockefeller Institute Center for Policy and Law and the SUNY Empire/New York State Women's Corporate Leadership Academy. She was the recipient of SUNY Empire State College's Scholars Across the College program for academic year 2017-2018 and has received three innovation in research awards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000902662
• Artikelnr.: 68089147