Introduction to Emergency Management

Introduction to Emergency Management, Fourth Edition, offers a practical guide to the discipline of emergency management. It focuses on the domestic emergency management system of the United States, highlighting the lessons and emerging trends that are applicable to emergency management systems in other parts of the world.
The book begins by tracing the historical development of emergency management from the 1800s to the present world of homeland security. It then discusses the hazards faced by emergency management and the methods of assessing hazard risk; the function of mitigation and the strategies and programs emergency management or other disciplines use to reduce the impact of disasters; and emergency management preparedness.
The book also covers the importance of communication in the emergency management of the twenty-first century; the functions and processes of disaster response; government and voluntary programs aimed at helping people and communities rebuild in the aftermath of a disaster; and international emergency management. It also addresses the impact of September 11, 2001 on traditional perceptions of emergency management; and emergency management in the post-9/11, post-Katrina environment.

• Dealing with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations
• Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change after Catastrophic Events (American Government and Public Policy)
• Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
• Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
• Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
• The Patriot Act: Issues and Controversies
• Death Work: Police, Trauma, and the Psychology of Survival
• Terrorism and WMDs: Awareness and Response, Second Edition
• Crime and Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice System