Emergency management: concepts and strategies foreffective programs

This book looks at the larger context within which emergency management response occurs, and stresses the development of a program to address a wide range of issues. Not limited to traditional emergency response to natural disasters, it addresses a conceptual model capable of integrating multiple disciplines and dealing with unexpected emergencies. Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs, Second Edition starts by focusing on the three pillars on which successful emergency management is based: an understanding of history, knowledge of social science research, and technical expertise in emergency management operations. It provides insight as to how emergency management has evolved and suggests reasons why the current method of response planning doesn<U+2019>t work as well as it should. The book then goes on to discuss establishing and administering the emergency management program. It looks at the analysis of risk as the basis for strategy development, and considers both the traditional macro view of hazard identification and analysis as well as the micro view required for continuity planning. Strategy development is examined next, followed by coverage of planning process, techniques and methods. The book finishes with chapters on coordinating response, leading in crisis, and crisis management. (Publisher).

Chapter 1 Historical Perspectives: The Evolution of Emergency Management; Why Study History?; Lessons From History; The Advent of Disaster Legislation; The Growth of Disaster Bureaucracy; From Military to Civilian Leadership; Civil Defense and Disaster Relief Merge; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Historical Perspectives: Toward a National Response Strategy; The Origins of National Planning; September 11 and The Impact of Homeland Security

The Marginalization of Emergency Management Capabilities-based Planning Replaces All-Hazards Planning; The Pendulum Swings Back: Hurricane Katrina; A Failed Response?; Degraded Capabilities and Confused Planning; Reform and New Planning Concepts; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Social Science and the Beginnings of Emergency Management Theory; Social Science as an Emergency Management Tool; Social Science Evolves Emergency Management Theory; Emergencies, Disasters, and Catastrophes; Disaster Mythology; Organizational Response; Conclusion

Chapter 4 The Emergency Manager: Evolving Roles and Shifting Paradigms Conflicting Roles; The Emergency Manager as Program Manager; Toward Professionalization; Emergency Management as a Field; Technical Knowledge; Standards of Con…