Emergency management : the American experience, 1900-2010 / / Claire B. Rubin, editor

• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, FL, : CRC Press, 2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.340973/0904
• Soggetto topico: Emergency management - United States; Hazard mitigation - United States; Natural disasters - United States
• Altri autori: RubinClaire B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: 110 Years of Disaster Response and Emergency Management in the United States; Chapter 2: Focusing Events in the Early Twentieth Century: A Hurricane, Two Earthquakes, and a Pandemic; Chapter 3: The Expanding Role of the Federal Government: 1927-1950; Chapter 4: The Formative Years: 1950-1978; Chapter 5: Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979-2001; Chapter 6: Emergency Management Restructured: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of Actions Taken since 9/11; Chapter 7: 2005 Events and Outcomes: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond ; Chapter 8: The System Is Tested: Response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillChapter 9: From a Painful Past to an Uncertain Future; Chapter 10: The Evolving Federal Role in Emergency Management: Policies and Processes; Suggested Readings; About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010 provides the background needed to understand the key political and policy underpinnings of emergency management, exploring how major ""focusing events"" have shaped the development of emergency management. It builds on the original theoretical framework and chronological approach, but improves on the first edition by adding fresh information on older events such as Hurricane Katrina as well as a new chapter covering the BP oil spill in 2010 an
• Titolo autorizzato: Emergency management
• ISBN: 1-4665-1754-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822110403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II