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14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Emergency and Disaster Management

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1.

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

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...response to disaster. The design...integrated emergency management system has...decisions under disaster conditions. The emergency management system may...effective...
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Flirting with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations » Read Now
by Saundra K. Schneider. 189 pgs.

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...understand how the disaster-response system operates. Emergency management officials...breakdowns in the disaster-response effort. Second, emergency management...
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A Framework for Analyzing Emergency Management with an Application to Federal Budgeting, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by Amy K. Donahue, Philip G. Joyce. 13 pgs.

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...important dimension of emergency management, the federal disaster-funding process. The...broad literature about emergency management and disaster policy has sprang...1995...
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Escalating in a Quagmire: The Changing Dynamics of the Emergency Management Policy Subsystem, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by Gary L. Wamsley, Aaron D. Schroeder. 10 pgs.

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...efforts at emergency management prior to the disaster. In effect...investing a lot in emergency management or those in...experience few disasters, are paying...available to...
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The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes » Read Now
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...
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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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Regionalizing Emergency Management: Counties as State and Local Government, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by William L. Waugh Jr. 6 pgs.

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...of hazards and disasters; (2) low salience of emergency management as an issue...unusually large disaster also increases emergency management capacities. Moreover...Design...
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Disaster Recovery Planning and Accounting Information Systems, in Review of Business » Read Now
by Steven J. Carlson, D.J. Parker. 6 pgs.

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...Strategies You Can Recover from a System Crash." Management Accountant, October 1994, pp. 49-54. 2. Disaster Area Practice Guide. American Institute...Preventing Disasters:...
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A Comparison of Disaster Paradigms: The Search for a Holistic Policy Guide, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by David A. Mcentire, Christopher Fuller, Chad W. Johnston, Richard Weber. 15 pgs.

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...variables leading to disaster. Comprehensive emergency managements depiction of the...the most effective disaster and emergency management programs" (153...shifts "the...
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Disaster Mental Health Services: A Primer for Practitioners » Read Now
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...
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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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The Continuity Principle: A Unified Approach to Disaster and Trauma, in American Journal of Community Psychology » Read Now
by Haim Omer, Nahman Alon. 15 pgs.

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...acquainted with the emergency team, helping to...organizations involved in disaster management; c) the team should...emergency team in disaster In Hebrew...
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World Trade Center Recovery: A Challenge to Traditional Disaster Management, in The Public Manager » Read Now
by Melissa M. Howard, Richard A. Buck. 4 pgs.

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...after the disaster, FEMA and...York State Emergency Management Office brought...Office of Management and Budget...much of the emergency cost documentation...after the...
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Municipal Emergency Preparedness: The Local Face of Homeland Security, in The Public Manager » Read Now
by Barbara L. Neuny. 5 pgs.

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...include natural disasters. Today, they...behind in our emergency status. Prophecy...International City Management Association...National Emergency Management...
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Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development Management » Read Now
by David R. Godschalk, David J. Brower. 278 pgs.

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...natural hazard management model. This...centered on an emergency event or disaster, such as...focused on the emergency management function...withstand future disasters...
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Learning from Disaster: Risk Management after Bhopal » Read Now
by Sheila Jasanoff. 298 pgs.

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...in design and management. Perrows systemic...production of disasters. Foreshadowing...illuminating study of emergency responses to...national risk management...