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Arjen Boin is associate professor of public administration and founding director of the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute at Louisiana State University.
Chris C. Demchak is associate professor of public administration and policy at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
List of Tables and Figures | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
The Rise of Resilience | p. 1 |
Resilience: Exploring the Concept and Its Meanings | p. 13 |
Designing Adaptive Systems for Disaster Mitigation and Response: The Role of Structure | p. 33 |
Lessons from the Military: Surprise, Resilience, and the Atrium Model | p. 62 |
Building Resilience: Macrodynamic Constraints on Governmental Response to Crises | p. 84 |
Federal Disaster Policy: Learning, Priorities, and Prospects for Resilience | p. 106 |
Designing Resilience: Leadership Challenges in Complex Administrative Systems | p. 129 |
Rapid Adaptation to Threat: The London Bombings of July 7, 2005 | p. 143 |
The Price of Resilience: Contrasting the Theoretical Ideal-Type with Organizational Reality | p. 158 |
Planning for Catastrophe: How France Is Preparing for the Avian Flu and What It Means for Resilience | p. 180 |
The Limits of Self-Reliance: International Cooperation as a Source of Resilience | p. 196 |
International Disaster Resilience: Preparing for Transnational Disaster | p. 220 |
Designing Resilient Systems: Integrating Science, Technology, and Policy in International Risk Reduction | p. 244 |
Resilience Revisited: An Action Agenda for Managing Extreme Events | p. 272 |
Notes | p. 285 |
References | p. 295 |
List of Contributors | p. 329 |
Index | p. 335 |
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