Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs
Lucien G. Canton
Provides a comprehensive examination of emergency management and offers concepts and strategies for creating effective programs
This book looks at the larger context within which emergency management response occurs, and stresses the development of a program to address a wide range of issues. Not limited to traditional emergency response to natural disasters, it addresses a conceptual model capable of integrating multiple disciplines and dealing with unexpected emergencies.
Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs, Second Edition starts by focusing on the three pillars on which successful emergency management is based: an understanding of history, knowledge of social science research, ... Read more
- Features two new chapters on the development of national response strategy and leadership in a crisis
- Incorporates the Principles of Emergency Management adopted by many emergency management professional associations and agencies
- Encourages the development of an enterprise wide program to address a wide range of potential threats
- Covers the various phases of comprehensive emergency management
- Integrates academic research with practical experience and case studies
Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs is an important book that will benefit students, law enforcement, and state and local emergency managers and planners involved in emergency management.
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