Emergency and Disaster Management

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Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives
by Louise K. Comfort. 422 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

The Policy Problem

Designing Policy for Action: The Emergency Management System

Structuring Problems for Policy Action

Mitigation

Current Policy Issues In Mitigation

Natural Hazard Mitigation And Development: an Exploration Of The Roles of the Public and Private Sectors

The Design and Implementation Of Disaster Mitigation Policy

Agenda-Setting in Nonstructural Hazard Mitigation Policy

Preparedness

Current Policy and Implementation Issues In Disaster Preparedness

Research-Based Disaster Planning: Conditions For Implementation

Federal Preparedness For Hazardous and Toxic Waste Disaster

Response

Management Issues in Emergency Response

Increasing Problem-Solving Capacity Between Organizations: the Role Of Information in Managing the May 31, 1985, Tornado Disaster in Western Pennsylvania

The Impact of Stress On Emergency Service Personnel: Policy Issues in Emergency Response

Recovery and Reconstruction

Recovery Following Disaster: Policy Issues and Dimensions

Disaster Recovery And Reconstruction

Policy Issues in International Context

Decisionmaking Under Disaster Conditions

Disaster Management In The Netherlands: Planning for Real Events

Science and the State In Latin America: Decisionmaking In Uncertainty

Integrating Emergency Management

Policy Analysis as the Study Of Implements: Analytical Tools in Disaster Management

Ethical Issues In Emergency Management Policy

Synthesis in Disaster Management: Linking Reason With Action in Learning Systems

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Contributors
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Flirting with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations
by Saundra K. Schneider. 189 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Part One: Analytical and Theoretical Frameworks

1: The Varied Success of the Governmental Response to Natural Disasters

Notes

2: Natural Disasters as Public Policy Issues

Notes

3: The Governmental Response System

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4: Human Behavior and Governmental Activity in Disasters: Two Sets of Norms

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5: The Gap Between Bureaucratic and Emergent Norms

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Part Two: Case Studies of Natural Disasters

6: A General Framework for Examining the Success or Failure of the Governmental Response to Natural Disasters

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7: Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean Islands

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8: Hurricane Andrew in South Florida

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9: South Carolina's Experience with Hurricane Hugo

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10: The Loma Prieta Earthquake in California

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11: Hurricane Hugo in North Carolina

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12: Hurricane Andrew in Louisiana

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13: "Normal" Disasters: 1990 Floods in South Carolina

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Part Three: Summary, Implications, and Conclusions

14: The Paradox of Governmental Performance

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15: Considering Recommendations for Change

Notes

References

Index

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A Framework for Analyzing Emergency Management with an Application to Federal Budgeting, in Public Administration Review
by Amy K. Donahue, Philip G. Joyce. 13 pgs.

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Escalating in a Quagmire: The Changing Dynamics of the Emergency Management Policy Subsystem, in Public Administration Review
by Gary L. Wamsley, Aaron D. Schroeder. 10 pgs.

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Emergency Relief Operations
by Kevin M. Cahill. 386 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: Kevin M Cahill, M.D

Part 1

1: Early Warning Systems

2: Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters

3: Evidence-Based Health Assessment Process in Complex Emergencies

4: Concern Worldwide's Approach to Water and Sanitation and Shelter Needs in Emergencies

Part 2

5: Internal Displacement

6: Protection Strategies in Humanitarian Interventions

7: Issues of Power and Gender in Complex Emergencies

8: Clinical Aspects of Malnutrition

Part 3

9: Military/Ngo Interaction Major General

10: An Introduction to NGO Field Security

Part 4

11: Resolutions, Mandates, Aims, Missions, and Exit Strategies

12: The Transition from Conflict to Peace

Selected Web Sites

Chapter Notes and References

Appendixes

The Center for International Health and Cooperation and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs

About the Authors

Index
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The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes
by Elaine Enarson, Betty Morrow Hearn. 275 pgs.

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Why are women so hard hit by disasters? This international collection offers a range of answers, and moves readers beyond the stereotypes of women as hapless victims. Drawing together the voices of women survivors and responders, leading scholars in disaster studies and experienced practitioners in the field offer new directions for disaster theory and practice.

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Why Gender? Why Women? An Introduction to Women and Disaster

I: Perspectives on Gender and Disaster

1: The Neglect of Gender in Disaster Work: An Overview of the Literature

2: Gender Inequality, Vulnerability, and Disaster: Issues in Theory and Research

3: The Perspective of Gender: A Missing Element in Disaster Response

II: Social Construction of Gendered Vulnerability

4: Eve and Adam among the Embers: Gender Patterns after the Oakland Berkeley Firestorm

5: A Comparative Perspective on Household, Gender, and Kinship in Relation to Disaster

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

6: "Men Must Work and Women Must Weep": Examining Gender Stereotypes in Disasters

7: Women and Postdisaster Stress

8: Balancing Vulnerability and Capacity: Women and Children in the Philippines

9: Domestic Violence after Disaster

III: Case Studies of Women Responding to Disaster

10: Gender, Disaster, and Empowerment: A Case Study from Pakistan

11: Women in Bushfire Territory

12: "Floods, They're a Damned Nuisance": Women's Flood Experiences in Rural Australia

13: Disaster Prone: Reflections of a Female Permanent Disaster Volunteer

14: Women's Disaster Vulnerability and Response to the Colima Earthquake

15: Gender Differentiation and Aftershock Warning Response

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16: Reflections from a Teacher and Survivor

17: Women Will Rebuild Miami: A Case Study of Feminist Response to Disaster

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18: Women in Emergency Management: An Australian Perspective

19: Women's Roles in Natural Disaster Preparation and Aid: A Central American View

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20: The Role of Women in Health-Related Aspects of Emergency Management: A Caribbean Perspective

Conclusion: Toward Gendered Disaster Policy, Practice, and Research

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Regionalizing Emergency Management: Counties as State and Local Government, in Public Administration Review
by William L. Waugh Jr. 6 pgs.

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Disaster Recovery Planning and Accounting Information Systems, in Review of Business
by Steven J. Carlson, D.J. Parker. 6 pgs.

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A Comparison of Disaster Paradigms: The Search for a Holistic Policy Guide, in Public Administration Review
by David A. Mcentire, Christopher Fuller, Chad W. Johnston, Richard Weber. 15 pgs.

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Disaster Mental Health Services: A Primer for Practitioners
by Diane Myers, David F. Wee. 285 pgs.

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This book assists clinicians and traumatologists in "making the bridge" between their clinical knowledge and skills and the unique, complex, chaotic, and highly political field of disaster. It combines information from a vast reservoir of prior research and literature with the authors' practical and pragmatic experience in providing disaster mental health services in a wide variety of disasters.

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Foreword

Introduction

I: Disaster Concepts and Roles

I: Disasters and Their Impact

2: Special Populations in Disaster

II: Services, Programs, and Workers

3: Code-C: a Model for Disaster Mental Health Service Delivery

4: Stress Management and Prevention of Compassion Fatigue for Psychotraumatologists

5: Critical Incident Stress Management in Large-Scale Disasters

6: Support Groups in Disaster Mental Health Programs

III: New Issues and Challenges

7: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism: Mental Health Issues and Interventions

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The Continuity Principle: A Unified Approach to Disaster and Trauma, in American Journal of Community Psychology
by Haim Omer, Nahman Alon. 15 pgs.

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World Trade Center Recovery: A Challenge to Traditional Disaster Management, in The Public Manager
by Melissa M. Howard, Richard A. Buck. 4 pgs.

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Municipal Emergency Preparedness: The Local Face of Homeland Security, in The Public Manager
by Barbara L. Neuny. 5 pgs.

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Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development Management
by David R. Godschalk, David J. Brower. 278 pgs.

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Tables and Figures

Preface

1: Coastal Storm Risks as a Policy Problem

References

2: Altenative Approaches to Mitigating Coastal Storm Hazards

References

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3: Mitigation After Camille, Frederic, and Alicia

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4: Federal Mitigation Programs and Policies

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5: State Mitigation Programs and Policies

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6: Local Mitigation Tools and Techniques

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7: Mitigation Practice in High-Hazard Coastal Localities

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8: Influences on Mitigation Priority, Adoption, and Effectiveness

Notes

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9: Recommended Mitigation Policies and Strategies

Notes

References

Appendix. Survey Questionnaire

Index

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Learning from Disaster: Risk Management after Bhopal
by Sheila Jasanoff. 298 pgs.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Learning from Disaster

Conclusion

Chapter 2: The Restructuring of Union Carbide

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Chapter 3: Legal and Political Repercussions In India

Chapter 4: Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal

Conclusions

Chapter 5: Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy Making

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Chapter 6: Disaster Prevention in Europe

Notes

Chapter 7: The Transnational Traffic In Legal Remedies

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Chapter 8: Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation As Less Than the Sum of Its Parts

Conclusion

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Chapter 9: Toxic Politics and Pollution Victims In The Third World

Conclusion

Conclusions: Information Flow as Risk Management

Conclusion

Chapter 12: Societal Contradictions And Industrial Crises

References

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Contributors

Index

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