Book Description:
Continues the success of the previous edition as a practical introduction to FEMA, emergency management, and disaster relief concepts
From the Back Cover:
Introduction to Emergency Management provides a unique and practical insight into the current strategies of disaster response planning and disaster mitigation. Emergency Management, Industrial Health and Safety, and Security students and professionals will find this an essential resource that they will refer to again and again. The book outlines the worldÂ’s leading emergency management agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), covering its history, organization, programs, and operations as well as the Federal Response Plan (FRP).
Highly practical and extremely easy to reference, this book provides the latest information of FEMA's emerging role within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The authors have also included a special and timely chapter on terrorism the recounts the events of September, 11, 2001, and what they mean to disaster management and emergency planning in the future.
The authors explain the roles, responsibilities, and interrelationship that exist among state and local emergency management systems, FEMA, and other critical partners. They also include federal emergency resources that are available to corporations and private organizations for dealing with all phases of a crisis - information critical for corporate executives, security managers, and business continuity experts.
Offering a current list of disaster management organizations' Web sites, a glossary of terms and acronyms, and a reference compendium of domestic and international disaster statistics, Introduction to Emergency Management is an invaluable resource.
Key Features:
* Includes numerous diagrams, illustrations, and statistics on disaster management history and concepts
* Provides case studies and examples of disasters from around the world to connect theory to real-world application
* Features a special chapter on September 11th, terrorism, and the new world order of disaster management
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