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This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terrorist attacks. Coverage includes: --The history of emergency management and its evolution from volunteer effort to trained intervention; --Organization of emergency management systems -- local, state, regional, national, international; governmental, for-profit, and nonprofit; --Managing natural disasters -- floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, avalanches, etc.; --Managing manmade disasters -- civil defense, terrorism, hazardous materials accidents, fires, structural failures, nuclear accidents, transportation disasters; --Policy issues in the management of risk, emergencies, and disasters; --Disaster management in the Twenty-first Century-- technological and political challenges. Twenty case studies illustrate the handling of actual disasters including the Northridge Earthquake and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Discussion questions and guides to on-line information sources facilitate use of the book in the classroom and professional training programs.


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  • Author : William L. Waugh
  • Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
  • Genre : Nature
  • Total Pages : 248 pages
  • ISBN : 9780765631633
  • PDF File Size : 44,6 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 1/5 from 1 reviews

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Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters

Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters
  • Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
  • File Size : 28,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 December 1999
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This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terrorist attacks. Coverage includes: --The history of emergency management

Natural Hazards

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  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 26,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 July 2016
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Natural Hazards: Earth Processes as Hazards, Disasters and Catastrophes, Fourth Edition, is an introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct,

At Risk

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  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 25,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 21 January 2014
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The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply

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  • Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
  • File Size : 48,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 18 September 2017
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Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management provides a series of cross-disciplinary approaches and methods which are exemplified by case studies from different parts of the world. Volume 18 looks at how

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  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • File Size : 41,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 February 1991
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Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard

Regions of Risk

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  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 31,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 September 2014
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An introduction to hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, paying particular attention to the more severe or novel risks and disaster that affect the general public. The book is split into

At Risk

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  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • File Size : 39,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 May 2024
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The second edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and argues that extreme natural events are

Facing Hazards and Disasters

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  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • File Size : 42,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 10 September 2006
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Social science research conducted since the late 1970's has contributed greatly to society's ability to mitigate and adapt to natural, technological, and willful disasters. However, as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina,