Emergency management and sustainability : defining a profession / by Robert O. Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Robert O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Springfield, Illinois : Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd., [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emergency managers are faced with natural and human-made problems that are constantly evolving and changing the footprints of disaster. The complexity of these problems is more than matched by the complexity of the physical and social systems that emergency managers are expected to understand as they offer solutions for the recurring disaster problems that are presented to them in the normal course of their work. The technical skills and capacities that emergency managers have developed over time as they have plied their trade are impressive and increasingly effective and have never been more

Contents:

""Untitled""; ""EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 1 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:TRADE OR PROFESSION""; ""Chapter 2 MITIGATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: IT TAKES A VILLAGE""; ""Chapter 3 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY""; ""Chapter 4 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT,SUSTAINABILITY, AND CLIMATE:WARMING UP TO THE CHALLENGE""; ""Chapter 5 HUMAN-MADE HAZARDS AND SUSTAINABILITY""; ""Chapter 6 RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY BY DESIGN""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-398-08764-4

OCLC:

849641792