Description
Designed to enable practitioners and students to evaluate a variety of real-life emergencies from every angle, this new edition of Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management provides clear, thorough, step-by-step descriptions of more than 50 major disasters or emergencies. Arranged chronologically, the case studies involve incidents from around the globe, with topics including natural disasters, industrial accidents, epidemics, and terrorist attacks. A series of questions throughout each case study encourages the reader to think critically about the problem at hand, to select a course of action, and to then see the results of the decisions that were made. This hands-on approach invites practitioners and students to apply learned theoretical emergency management techniques in a safe test environment.
Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management, 2e provides readers with the most modern and current case studies in disaster response and emergency management and can be used in group project settings, as individual homework assignments in training courses for first responders, law enforcement, and government employees, or to complement existing emergency management textbooks in Public Administration, Public Management, and Public Affairs programs.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Allen Barnes
Foreword by Ted Benavides
Foreword by Mark Hall-Patton
Preface
Chapter One: Guidelines and General Information for Public Officials and Administrators
Section 1: Natural Disasters
Chapter Two: Case Studies: Disasters from Natural Forces – Fires
Chapter Three: Disasters from Natural Causes – Hurricanes
Chapter Four: Case Studies: Disasters from Natural Forces – Floods
Chapter Five: Case Studies: Disasters from Natural Forces – Tornadoes
Chapter Six: Disasters from Natural Forces – Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Chapter Seven: Disasters from Natural Sources – Other Weather, Animal, and Viral Phenomena
Section 2: Man-Made Disasters
Chapter Eight: Man-Made Disasters – Industrial Accidents
Chapter Nine: Case Studies: Man-Made Disasters – Transportation Accidents
Chapter Ten: Case Studies: Man-Made Disasters – Structural Failure
Section 3: Terrorism and Criminal Acts
Chapter Eleven: Disasters from Criminal or Terrorist Acts – Bombings and Explosives
Chapter Twelve: Case Studies: Disasters from Criminal or Terrorist Acts – Shootings and Riots
Chapter Thirteen: Disasters from Criminal or Terrorist Acts: Biological and Chemical Attacks
Section 4: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Disasters
Chapter Fourteen: Case Studies: Man-Made Disasters – Nuclear, Biotoxins, or Chemicals
Section 5: Disasters Occurring in Museums, Libraries and Archives
Chapter Fifteen: Case Studies: Disasters Occurring at Museums, Libraries and Archives
Section 6: Final Thoughts
Chapter Sixteen: Conclusion
Index
