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U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe

U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe

Type: Book

Description: U.S. Emergency Management in the 21 st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the current public sector emergency management
systems sufficient to handle future disasters given the environmental and social changes underway? In this timely book, Claire B. Rubin and Susan L. Cutter focus on disaster recovery efforts, community resilience, and public policy issues of related to recent disasters and what they portend for the
future. Beginning with the external societal forces influencing shifts in policy and practice, the next six chapters provide in-depth accounts of recent disasters— the Joplin, Tuscaloosa- Birmingham, and Moore tornadoes, Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires. The book concludes with a chapter on loss accounting and a summary chapter on what has gone right, what has gone wrong, and why the federal government may no longer be a reliable partner in emergency
management.

Authors: Claire B. Rubin, Susan L. Cutter

Published by: Routledge

Publishing time: 2020

Pages: 290

Publication page: https://www.routledge.com/US-Emergency-Management-in-the-21st-Century-From-Disaster-to-Catastrophe/Rubin-Cutter/p/book/9781138354661#

TOPICS/Subjects:

  • CLIMATE CHANGE
  • DISASTER PREVENTION
  • Capacity Building
  • Disaster Training
  • DISASTER RESPONSE
  • Civil Military Cooperation
  • Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR)
  • International Mechanisms
  • Best Practices
  • CLIMATE AND SECURITY
  • Human Security
  • National Security
  • International Security