Claire Rubin, aka Recovery Diva, now has her revision of a very popular textbook on the street. See 2nd Edition: Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010
What's new in this edition:
Features
- Updates and improves on the award-winning first edition
- Supplies an in-depth analysis of the political and policy processes of U.S. federal government involvement in emergency management from 1900 to 2010
- Facilitates the background needed to understand the essential political and policy underpinnings of emergency management
- Reports on the changes to policy, shifts in DHS and FEMA, and the emerging responses to disasters from 2005–2010
- Includes a new chapter covering the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900–2010 provides the background needed to understand the key political and policy underpinnings of emergency management, exploring how major "focusing events" have shaped the development of emergency management. It builds on the original theoretical framework and chronological approach, but improves on the first edition by adding fresh information on older events such as Hurricane Katrina as well as a new chapter covering the BP oil spill in 2010 and the unprecedented characteristics of the disaster response to it. The final chapter offers an insightful discussion of the public administration concepts that constitute the larger context for consideration of emergency management in the United States for more than a century.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: 110 Years of Disaster Response and Emergency Management in the United States; Claire B. Rubin
Chapter 2: Focusing Events in the Early Twentieth Century: A Hurricane, Two Earthquakes, and a Pandemic; David Butler
Chapter 3: The Expanding Role of the Federal Government: 1927–1950; David Butler
Chapter 4: The Formative Years: 1950–1978; Keith Bea
Chapter 5: Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979–2001; Richard T. Sylves
Chapter 6: Emergency Management Restructured: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of Actions Taken since 9/11; John R. Harrald
Chapter 7: 2005 Events and Outcomes: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond; Melanie Gall and Susan L. Cutter
Chapter 8: The System Is Tested: Response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; John R. Harrald
Chapter 9: From a Painful Past to an Uncertain Future; Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley
Chapter 10: The Evolving Federal Role in Emergency Management: Policies and Processes; Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley
