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| | Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2005 |  | Creator: Public Entity Risk Institute
Publisher: Public Entity Risk Institute
Category: Book
Buy New: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 424255
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 274
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0979372208
EAN: 9780979372209
ASIN: 0979372208
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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In autumn 2005, three massive hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma struck the U.S. with catastrophic results. Hurricane Katrina, in particular, stood out as one of the worst disasters of the past 100 years. The emergency response to Katrina was so inadequate and problematic that the U.S. was humiliated both at home and abroad. These events prompted perhaps the deepest and most sustained examination of public emergency management (EM) functions and systems ever conducted in U.S. history. Citizens, the media, and public officials have questioned the effectiveness of our emergency management systems. The three 2005 hurricanes did for natural disaster response what the terrorist attacks on 9/11 did for counter-terrorism--both glaringly displayed the weaknesses and failures in certain systems, processes, and leadership. Emergency Management: The American Experience, 1900-2005 brings a historical perspective to this ongoing examination. Edited by Claire B. Rubin, this book reviews the past century of historic major disasters in the U.S. and their outcomes, with a special focus on governmental response. Among the types of disasters included are earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, floods, a pandemic, and an explosion. For 80 of the past 105 years, the federal government s role in emergency management has been expanding. With virtually every new presidential administration, the organizational forms and functions of EM have evolved. Changes have occurred not only within public management systems and services, but also with the expectations of state and local government officials and the general public. The book is intended to answer two key questions: Why did the federal government get involved in emergency management? Why and how has that role changed? Not a traditional history book, Emergency Management: The American Experience, 1900-2005 provides a unique analytic approach, focusing on the changes in public policies, administration, and organizations resulting from major focusing disaster events. It is an excellent textbook or supplemental textbook for college courses that focus on emergency management.
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Significant contribution March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an important book and obligatory reading for all either interested in homeland security or professionally involved with it. It is also a facinating, and, for most readers, little known history of the US, the government, the major catastrophes that affected this country, and the recovery. While recommended for all as a simply very good read, the book ought to become a standard text used at all college and university courses devoted to homeland security. It also should become a permanent part of every emergency manager's library (as well as a handy "memento mori" symbol) and constitute an integral part of several intra-governmental education programs devoted to homeland security, politics, public administration, etc. For lay readers the principal value of the book rests in a factual exposure to highly fascinating field whose importance and impact on our daily lives grows exponentially. By vividly portraying the vast, exceedingly complex nature of emergency management operations, the authors also show that the accusations of "bungling the job" are at times too readily professed, and too often made without adequate factual knowledge. Or that bungling actually did take place simply because factual knowledge had been ignored or forgotten.
Most recommended.
Prize Winning Book March 20, 2008
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Recently awarded the 2008 Book Prize by the American Society for Public Administration,Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration (SENRA).
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