Handbook of Crisis and Emergency ManagementAli Farazmand Including contributions from sixty international authors, this book examines emergency responses to environmental dangers such as chemical fires, hazardous material and oil spills, nuclear reactor accidents, and earthquakes, and crises in the environment, global public service, and politics. It covers a wide range of international issues and topics, using various analyses, including critical, descriptive, empirical, quantitative, and normative methods. The book discusses approaches to natural disasters, resolutions to cultural, religious, and political tensions, terrorism and the potential use of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, the role of crisis public relations, and more. |
Contents
Introduction Crisis and Emergency Management | 1 |
The Crisis of Character in Comparative Perspective | 11 |
Preparing tor Diversity in the Midst of Adversity An Intercultural Communication Training Program for Refugee Assistance Crisis Management | 23 |
Formation ot Motivation Crisis Liberalism Nationalism and Religion in Israel | 39 |
Crisis Policy Making Some Implications for Program Management | 55 |
Disaster Impact upon Urban Economic Structure Linkage Disruption and Economic Recovery | 69 |
Crisis in the US Administrative State | 91 |
Global Crisis in Public Service and Administration | 111 |
Community Recovery and Reconstruction Following Disasters | 419 |
Potential for Disaster Case Study of the Powell Duffryn Chemical Fire and Hazardous Material Spill | 433 |
American Presidential Crisis Management Under Kennedy The Cuban Missile Crisis | 451 |
Emergency Management on a Grand Scale A Bureaucrats Analysis | 463 |
Lessons Learned from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl Reactor Accidents | 481 |
The 1989 Rail Disaster at Clapham in South London | 491 |
Emergency Management in Korea Mourning over Tragic Deaths | 501 |
The 1994 Plague Outbreak in Surat India Social Networks and Disaster Management | 521 |
Immigrants Refugees and the Affordable Housing Crisis in South Florida | 131 |
Managing Complex Emergencies UN Administration and the Resolution of Civil Wars | 147 |
Managing Through a Crisis A Case Study of the Orange County California Bankruptcy | 169 |
System Crisis The 1973 War Crisis in Israel | 187 |
Homeless Policy Initiatives Managing or Muddling Through the Crisis? | 199 |
Smoke on the Water Fighting Fires at Sea | 215 |
From Texas City to Exxon Valdez What Have We Learned About Managing Marine Disasters? | 231 |
Environmental Public Relations and Crisis Management Two Paradigmatic CasesBhopal and Exxon | 245 |
Metropolitan Medical Strike Team Systems Responding to the Medical Demands of WMDNBC Events | 259 |
Managing Urban Violence Cases in Hospital Emergency Departments | 267 |
A New Use tor an Old Model Continuity of Government as a Framework for Local Emergency Managers | 283 |
What Disaster Response Management Can Learn from Chaos Theory | 293 |
The Psychology of Evacuation and the Design ot Policy | 309 |
The Role of Technology and Human Factors in Emergency Management | 327 |
The Intergovernmental Dimensions of Natural Disaster and Crisis Management in the United States | 339 |
The Evolution of Emergency Management in America From a Painful Past to a Promising but Uncertain Future | 357 |
Disaster Management in Hong Kong | 531 |
Coping with Calamities Disaster Management in Bangladesh | 545 |
Crisis Management in Japan Lessons from the Great HanshinAwaji Earthquake of 1995 | 559 |
Integrating Public Administration Science and Community Action A Case of EarlyWarning Success in Qinglong County for the Magnitude 78 Tangs... | 581 |
Public Management and Natural Disasters A Case Study of Earthquake Management in Iran | 617 |
Lebanon Culture and Crisis | 627 |
Transforming Danger into Opportunity Jordan and the Refugee Crisis of 1990 | 649 |
Managing Terrorism as an Environmental Hazard | 659 |
Planning tor Weapons of Mass DestructionNuclear Biological and Chemical Agents A LocalFederal Partnership | 677 |
Emergency Managers tor the New Millennium | 693 |
Coastal Hazard Mitigation in Florida | 703 |
Planning tor Prevention Emergency Preparedness and Planning to Lessen the Potential for Crisis | 723 |
Managing RefugeeAssistance Crises in the TwentyFirst Century The Intercultural Communication Factor | 737 |
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