The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S. (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Legislation, Policy, and Finance
Redaktion: Lepore, Amy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

U.S. congressional debates over the last few years have highlighted a paradox: although research demonstrates that emergencies are most effectively managed at the local level, fiscal support and programmatic management in response to disasters has shifted to the federal level. While the growing complexity of catastrophes may overwhelm local capacities and would seem to necessitate more federal engagement, can a federal approach be sustainable, and can it contribute to local capacity-building?

This timely book examines local capacity-building as well as the current legal, policy and fiscal framework for disaster management, questioning some of the fundamentals of the current system, exploring whether accountability and responsibilities are correctly placed, offering alternative models, and taking stock of the current practices that reflect an effective use of resources in a complex emergency management system. The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S. will be of interest to disaster and emergency managers as well as public servants and policy-makers at all levels tasked with responding to increasingly complex catastrophes of all kinds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315310756
• Artikelnr.: 47386321

Autorenporträt

Amy LePore is President of Anthem Planning, LLC and past President of the Maryland Emergency Management Association. In 2015 she earned a Ph.D. in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware, U.S.A. Her research specialization is in federalism, dependence, and emergency management.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 The Centralization of Emergency Management
AMY LEPORE
SECTION I Legislation
2 Intents and Outcomes for Local Businesses in Post-Disaster Contracting
under the Stafford Act
CHRISTOPHER L. ATKINSON
3 Revising Federal Disaster Management Policy: Establishing an Officer in
Charge
MARC LANDY AND JESSICA GOLEY
4 Assisting Individuals with Access and Functional Needs: The Intersection
of Disabilities, Planning and Disaster Policy
MELISSA PINKE, STACEY MANN, AND ELIZABETH TODAK
SECTION II Policy
5 Local Recovery: How Robust Community Rebound Necessarily Comes from the
Bottom Up
EMILY CHAMLEE-WRIGHT, STEFANIE HAEFFELE-BALCH, AND VIRGIL HENRY STORR
6 Small Businesses as a Vulnerable Population
MARK R. LANDAHL AND TONYA T. NEAVES
7 Managing Human Capital in Times of Crisis: The Role of Employees in
Disaster Management
STACEY C. MANN AND JONATHAN W. GADDY
SECTION III Finance
8 Major Disasters and Private Financing
PETE VLOEDMAN
9 Financial Resiliency by Local Governments to Natural Disasters
ROBERT BLAND, JESSECA E. SHORT, AND SIMON A. ANDREW
10 The Effects of Natural Disasters on Local-Government Finance
ORKHAN ISMAYILOV AND SIMON A. ANDREW
Index