Emergency management : the American experience / edited by Claire B. Rubin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubin, Claire B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

United States.

Natural disasters--United States.

Natural disasters.

Hazard mitigation--United States.

Hazard mitigation.

Physical Description:

xi, 295 pages : illusrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : London ; Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: 110 Years of Disaster Response and Emergency Management in the United States p. 1 / Claire B. Rubin

Chapter 2 Focusing Events in the Early Twentieth Century: A Hurricane, Two Earthquakes, and a Pandemic p. 11 / David Butler

Chapter 3 The Expanding Role of the Federal Government: 1927-1950 p. 49 / David Butler

Chapter 4 The Formative Years: 1950-1978 p. 81 / Keith Bea

Chapter 5 Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979-2001 p. 113 / Richard T. Sylves

Chapter 6 Emergency Management Restructured: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of Actions Taken since 9/11 p. 167 / John R. Harrald

Chapter 7 2005 Events and Outcomes: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond p. 191 / Melanie Gall and Susan L. Cutter

Chapter 8 Systems Are Tested: Emergency Management and Legal Responses to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill p. 219 / Liesel A. Ritchie and Duane A. Gill and John R. Harrald

Chapter 9 The Evolving Federal Role in Emergency Management: Policies and Processes p. 239 / Patrick S. Roberts and Jeffrey A. Glick and Gary Wamsley

Chapter 10 From Painful Past to Uncertain Future p. 267 / Patrick S. Roberts and Jeffrey A. Glick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Emergency management

ISBN:

9781138354050

1138354058

9781138354067

1138354066

OCLC:

1088600592