Disaster policy and its practice in the United States : a brief history and analysis /

Emergency management and the study of disasters is a relatively young industry, beginning in its current form only after the World Wars of the previous century. Yet with the ever-increasing complexity of society in the Digital Age, the management and recovery from disasters in recent years have rece...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jackman, Andrea M. (Autor), Beruvides, Mario G., 1959- (Autor), Nestler, Gary S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2017.
Colección:Industrial and systems engineering collection.
Temas:
Emergency management > Government policy > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Emergency management > Government policy
United States
cost of policy
cost of quality
disaster management
emergency management
federal government
industrial engineering
systems engineering
legislation
mitigation
planning
policy design
policy
preparedness
quality measures
recovery
response
workforce professionals
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: why we need to analyze policy in emergency management
  • 1.1 Why emergency management? An introduction by Andrea Jackman
  • 1.2 About this book
  • 2. Emergency management in the United States, 1800-1969
  • 2.1 Nineteenth-century beginnings
  • 2.2 U.S. disasters in the early 20th century
  • 2.3 Duck and cover! Military influence and the Cold War
  • Websites of interest
  • 3. The 1970s: four phases and FEMA
  • 3.1 Shifting government priorities and agencies
  • 3.2 Our four-phase cycle: the industry standard
  • 3.3 The new Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Websites of interest
  • 4. The Stafford Act of 1988: then and now
  • 4.1 The Stafford Act
  • 4.2 Updates to federal disaster management
  • 4.3 The Stafford Act in the 21st century
  • Websites of interest
  • 5. DMA 2000 and September 11, 2001: a shift from responding to preparing
  • 5.1 Mitigation gets its own law
  • 5.2 How to comply with DMA 2000
  • 5.3 Implementation challenges for DMA 2000
  • 5.4 Industry impacts of terrorism
  • 5.5 The National Incident Management System
  • Websites of interest
  • 6. Hurricane Katrina and PKEMRA: new challenges in a new millennium
  • 6.1 Hurricane Katrina, a disaster of perception
  • 6.2 The post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006
  • Websites of interest
  • 7. Certifications, societies, and self-assessments: a look at industry policy
  • 7.1 Process quality in emergency management
  • 7.2 The International Association of Emergency Managers
  • 7.3 Certified emergency managers
  • 7.4 The National Emergency Management Association and programs
  • Websites of interest
  • 8. The business of disaster
  • 8.1 Background and challenges
  • 8.2 Risk-reward ratio
  • 8.3 System constraints and expectations
  • 8.4 Expectations
  • 8.5 Return on investment: a case in point, Georgia
  • 8.6 Analytics and business intelligence
  • 9. Emergency management 2020: the current state of research and policy recommendations for the future
  • 9.1 The next five years
  • 9.2 Future policy and research directions
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Glossary of terms
  • Appendix B: Additional reading materials
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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