Emergency management
Subtitle: the American experience, 1900-2010
By: editor, Claire B. Rubin
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781466517530
Subjects: Emergency management; Hazard mitigation; Natural disasters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction : 110 years of disaster response and emergency management in the united States / Claire B. Rubin; title: Focusing events in the early twentieth century : a hurricane, two earthquakes, and a pandemic / David Butler; title: The expanding role of the federal government : 1927-1950 / David Butler; title: The formative years : 1950-1978 / Keith Bea; title: Federal emergency management comes of age : 1979-2001 / Richard T. Sylves; title: Emergency management restructured : intended and unintended outcomes of actions taken since 9/11 / John R. Harrald; title: 2005 events and outcomes : hurricane Katrina and beyond / Melanie Gall and Susan L. Cutter; title: The system is tested : response to the BP deepwater horizon oil spill / John R. Harrald; title: Emergency management : the American experience IV 1900-2010; title: From a painful past to an uncertain future / Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley; title: The evolving federal role in emergency management : policies and processes / Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley; title: Suggested readings; title: About the authors; title: Index.