Disaster Policy and Politics: Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Richard Sylvesis professor of political science at the University of Delaware. He has served on a National Academy of Science, National Research Council panel, and he has done funded and unfunded research for FEMA. He served three years as an appointed member of the National Academy of Science Disaster Roundtable. His books includeThe Nuclear Oracles; Disaster Management in the United States and Canada: Politics, Policy, Administration, Study and Instruction of Emergency Management; Cities and Disaster: North American Studies in Emergency Management(with William Waugh); andHomeland Security and Emergency Management: A Public Budgeting Perspective.