Managing Disaster

by Comfort, Louise K.

• ISBN13: 9780822308164
• ISBN10: 0822308169
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This book reflects an important shift in society's definition of disaster. For centuries catastrophic events have been considered "acts of God" and therefore uncontrollable by definition.Managing Disasteris international in scope, covering such natural and man-made calamities as tornadoes in western Pennsylvania, earthquakes in Peru, flooding in the Netherlands, and toxic waste disasters.Centers for hazard studies have only recently examined the interrelated aspects of disastrous events and recognized the interaction between natural hazards and human systems. As society attempts to acquire the information and develop the skills to reduce the risks and damage from disaster, an increasingly professional public service is reconsidering its strategies and policy direction.Managing Disasteraddresses this problem and the need for a new approach to teaching this subject at the university level. Twenty-three professionals and scholars in public policy and administrationrom universities, government, and the private sectorexamine the basic issues confronting managers and public agencies in the face of disaster.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
The Policy Problem	p. 1
Designing Policy for Action The Emergency Management System	p. 3
Structuring Problems for Policy Action	p. 22
Mitigation	p. 37
Current Policy Issues In Mitigation	p. 39
Natural Hazard Mitigation And Development: an Exploration Of The Roles of the Public and Private Sectors	p. 53
The Design and Implementation Of Disaster Mitigation Policy	p. 67
Agenda-Setting in Nonstructural Hazard Mitigation Policy	p. 86
Preparedness	p. 109
Current Policy and Implementation Issues In Disaster Preparedness	p. 111
Research-Based Disaster Planning Conditions For Implementation	p. 126
Federal Preparedness For Hazardous and Toxic Waste Disaster	p. 147
Response	p. 161
Management Issues in Emergency Response	p. 163
Increasing Problem-Solving Capacity Between Organizations: the Role Of Information in Managing the May 31, 1985Tornado Disaster in Western Pennsylvania	p. 180
The Impact of Stress On Emergency Service Personnel Policy Issues in Emergency Response	p. 199
Recovery and Reconstruction	p. 215
Recovery Following Disaster Policy Issues and Dimensions	p. 217
Disaster Recovery And Reconstruction	p. 236
Policy Issues in International Context	p. 253
Decisionmaking Under Disaster Conditions	p. 255
Disaster Management In The Netherlands Planning for Real Events	p. 274
Science and the State In Latin America: Decisionmaking In Uncertainty	p. 296
Integrating Emergency Management	p. 313
Policy Analysis as the Study Of Implements: Analytical Tools in Disaster Management	p. 315
Ethical Issues In Emergency Management Policy	p. 330
Synthesis in Disaster Management: Linking Reason With Action in Learning Systems	p. 344
Notes	p. 351
Bibliography	p. 386
Index	p. 407
Contributors	p. 419
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