Emergency Management: The American Experience

ISBN-13: 9781138354067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 308 str.

Claire B. Rubin

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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