Transportation disaster response handbook
By: Jay Levinson, Hayim Granot.
Contributors: Granot, Hayim.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Emergency management; Transportation accidents -- Investigation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PREFACE vii; title: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix; title: INTRODUCTION xi; title: SECTION I: TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS; title: CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND FOR NEW DISASTERS 3; title: SECTION I1: GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISASTER RESPONSE; title: 2 HISTORY OF DISASTER PLANNING 11; title: 3 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN DISASTER PLANNING 15; title: 4 VICTIMOLOGY 23; title: 5 DISASTER CYCLES 27; title: 6 PREDICTING DISASTER AND EMERGENCY PLANNING 33; title: 7 PRIVATE SECTOR 49; title: 8 WHEN DISASTER STRIKES 53; title: 9 USING THE MILITARY 61; title: 10 TRAINING 65; title: 11 WARNING AND EVACUATION 69; title: 12 SEARCH AND RESCUE 77; title: 13 DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS 83; title: 14 INFORMATION CENTERS 87; title: 15 TERRORISM AND CRIMINALITY 89; title: SECTION II1: TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF A RESPONSE; title: 16 COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 97; title: 17 MEDICAL RESPONSE 99; title: 18 POLICE OPERATIONS 111; title: 19 FIRE 131; title: 20 FORENSIC SCIENCE 141; title: 21 VOLUNTEERISM 173; title: 22 PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND MENTAL HEALTH 183; title: 23 MEDIA AND INFORMATION 197; title: SECTION IV MANAGEMENT ISSUES; title: 24 BUSINESS RECOVERY 215; title: SECTION V: RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS; title: 25 AVIATION 223; title: 26 DISASTER AT SEA 247; title: 27 LAND TRANSPORTATION 253; title: SECTION VI: CONCLUSION; title: 28 CONCLUSION 261.