Principles of Emergency Planning and Management.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, David (David E.)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (732 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press Ltd, 2002.

Summary:

A systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster, the book introduces the methods, procedures and strategies of emergency planning. It is designed to be a reference source and manual from which emergency mangers can extract ideas and pro-forma methodologies to help them design and implement emergency plans.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Aims, purpose and scope of emergency planning; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Long-term planning; 1.3 Planning for the short term; 2 Methodology: making and using maps; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The emergency planner's choice of methodology; 2.3 Cartographic methods; 3 Methodology: analytical techniques; 3.1 Modelling; 3.2 Risk analysis; 3.3 Loss estimation; 3.4 Resource analysis and inventory; 3.5 General and organizational systems analysis; 3.6 Field exercises; 3.7 Use of information technology; 4 The emergency plan and its activation

4.1 The process of planning4.2 Disseminating the plan; 4.3 Testing and revising the plan; 4.4 The integration of plans in theory and practice; 5 The plan in practice: emergency management; 5.1 Management styles; 5.2 Alert procedures, warnings and evacuation; 5.3 Search and rescue; 5.4 Communications; 5.5 Transportation; 5.6 Engineering; 5.7 Shelter; 5.8 Emergency food programmes; 5.9 The care of vulnerable and secure groups; 6 Specialized planning; 6.1 Emergency medical planning; 6.2 Veterinary plans; 6.3 Emergency planning and schools; 6.4 Terrorism and crowd emergencies

6.5 Emergency planning for industries6.6 Emergency planning for tourism; 6.7 Planning for libraries and archives; 6.8 Protecting fine art and architecture; 6.9 A plan for the mass media; 6.10 Psychiatric help; 6.11 A note on the integration of plans; 7 Reconstruction planning; 7.1 Temporary measures; 7.2 Restoration of services; 7.3 Reconstruction of damaged structures; 7.4 Development and mitigation; 8 Emergency-management training; 8.1 The cause-and-effect model; 8.2 The concept-based approach; 8.3 Scenario-based methods; 8.4 Trends in disaster education and training; 9 Concluding thoughts

GlossaryBibliography; Index; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78046-529-7

1-62870-344-X

OCLC:

893039934