Playing Politics with Natural Disaster : Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA /

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"In Playing Politics with Natural Disaster, Timothy Kneeland describes how the administration of Richard Nixon exploited the Hurricane Agnes flooding for political gain and then eroded a generation of natural disaster legislation that had been steadily moving toward the federalization of United...

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Autor principal: Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Natural disasters > Political aspects.
Emergency management > Government policy.
Disaster relief > Political aspects.
Disaster relief > Government policy.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Catastrophes naturelles > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Ouragans > Aspect politique > Pennsylvanie.
Ouragans > Aspect politique > New York (État)
Ouragan Agnes, 1972 > Aspect politique.
Emergency management > Government policy > United States.
Emergency management > Political aspects > United States.
Disaster relief > Government policy > United States.
Disaster relief > Political aspects > United States.
Natural disasters > Political aspects > United States.
Hurricanes > Political aspects > Pennsylvania.
Hurricanes > Political aspects > New York (State)
Hurricane Agnes, 1972 > Political aspects.
United States.
Pennsylvania.
New York (State)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Local Disasters, Government Actors, and National Policy
  • American Disaster Policy through 1972 : Growing Benefits and Expanding Federal Authority
  • Agnes Makes Landfall : Death and Destruction in New York and Pennsylvania
  • Who's in Charge? : Local Governments Collapse in the Face of Disaster
  • Playing Politics with Disaster : Relief and the 1972 Election
  • "I Have a HUD-Ache" : Public Discontent over Disaster Aid
  • "Better than Ever"? Rebuilding amidst Industrial Decline
  • Without Warning and Defenseless : The Weather Service and Civil Defense before and after Hurricane Agnes
  • The Risky Business of Flood Control : When Dams and Levees Put People at Greater Risk of Flood
  • The Disaster Relief Act of 1974 : Richard Nixon and the Creation of Emergency Management
  • Epilogue : Into the Future.

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