Emergency Management (eBook, PDF)

The American Experience
Redaktion: Rubin, Claire B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The newly updated edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience continues the tradition of all previous editions: a succinct yet comprehensive teaching and learning textbook to understand the essential political and policy underpinnings of emergency management in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429756856
• Artikelnr.: 57161586

Autorenporträt

Claire B. Rubin is president of Claire B. Rubin & Associates, LLC (clairerubin.com), a small business specializing in disaster research and consulting located in Arlington, Virginia. She is a social scientist with more than forty years of experience in emergency management and homeland security. Her experience includes independent researcher, consultant, practitioner, and educator. She was affiliated with The George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management from 1998 through 2014. In recent years, her firm has produced a variety of educational products and services. She maintains the blog on disaster recovery called Recovery Diva. Ms. Rubin is the author or editor of three books, has written almost 100 additional articles, and has presented numerous lectures on emergency management and homeland security topics. She was the co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. She holds a BS degree from Simmons College and an MA from Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: 110 Years of Disaster Response and Emergency
Management in the United States 2. Focusing Events in the Early Twentieth
Century: A Hurricane, Two Earthquakes, and a Pandemic 3. The Expanding Role
of the Federal Government: 1927-1950 4. The Formative Years: 1950-1978 5.
Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979-2001 6. Emergency
Management Restructured: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of Actions taken
since 9/11 7. 2005 Events and Outcomes: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond 8. The
System Is Tested: Response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 9. From a
Painful Past to an Uncertain Future 10. The Evolving Federal Role in
Emergency Management: Policies and Processes