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By
Damon Coppola, Senior Associate, Bullock & Haddow LLC
Description
Written from a global perspective on risk, hazards, and disasters, Introduction to International Disaster Management provides
practitioners, educators and students with a comprehensive overview of the players, processes and special issues involved in the management
of large-scale natural and technological disasters. The book discusses special issues encountered in the management of international
disasters, and explains the various private, non-governmental, national, and international agencies that assist in preparedness, mitigation,
response and recovery during national and regional events.
Concentrating on the four major phases of emergency management – mitigation,
preparedness, response, and recovery – Introduction to International Disaster Management deals with such timely topics as
Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami, and SARS. It also serves as a reference to governmental and other agencies involved in international
disaster management activities. This book is the first of its kind to take a global approach to the topic of international disaster
management.
Audience
Educators and students in undergraduate and graduate degree, certificate, and continuing education programs dealing with disaster and
emergency management, and international affairs. Security managers, designers of contingency / evacuation plans, city managers, urban
planners, disaster management and emergency planning consultants, community planners, non-profit organizations, business continuity and
contingency planners.
Contents
Chapter 1: The Management of Disasters
- Introduction
- Disasters Throughout History
- The History of Disaster Management
- Modern Disaster
Management - A Four Phase Approach
- What is International Disaster Management?
- Disasters, Poverty, and Development
- Disaster Trends
- Definitions
Chapter 2: Hazards
- Introduction
- Hazard Identification and Hazard Profiling
- Hazard Analysis
- The Hazards
- Conclusion
Chapter 3: Risk and Vulnerability
- Introduction
- Two Components of Risk
- Trends
- Computing Likelihood and Consequence Values
- Risk
Evaluation
- Risk Acceptability
- Alternatives
- Vulnerability
- Risk Perception
- Conclusion
Chapter 4: Mitigation
- Introduction
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What is Mitigation?
- Types of Mitigation: Structural and Non-Structural
- Obstacles to Mitigation
- Assessing and Selecting Mitigation
Options
- Emergency Response Capacity as a Risk Mitigation Measure
- Incorporating Mitigation into Development and Relief Projects
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Conclusion
Chapter 5: Preparedness
- Introduction
- Overview of Disaster Preparedness
- Government Preparedness
- Public Preparedness
- The Media as a Public Educator
- Obstacles to Effective Public Education and Preparedness
- Conclusion
Chapter 6: Response
- Introduction
- What is Response?
- Response - The Emergency
- Recognition - Pre-Disaster Actions
- Recognition - Post-Disaster
- Coordination
- Conclusion
Chapter 7: Recovery
- Introduction
- Overview of Recovery
- The Effects of Disasters on Society
- Pre-Disaster Recovery Actions
- Components
of Recovery - What is Needed and Where Does it Come From?
- Types of Recovery
- Special Considerations in Recovery
- Conclusion
Chapter
8: Participants - Governmental Disaster Management Agencies
- Introduction
- Governmental Emergency Management Structures
- Emergency
Management Participants
- Organizational Structures
- Bilateral Disaster Management Assistance
- How Governments Provide Assistance
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Types of Bilateral Assistance
- Types of National Government Agencies Involved in International Emergency Management
- Conclusion
Chapter
9: Participants - Nongovernmental Organizations
- Introduction
- Who Are the NGOs?
- What Do They Do?
- NGO Operations
- NGO / Military
Cooperation
- Standards of Conduct
- The Role of the Private Sector
- The Role of Academia
- Conclusion
Chapter 10: Participants - Multilateral
Organizations and the International Financial Institutions
- Introduction
- The United Nations
- Regional International Organizations
- The International Financial Institutions
- Conclusion
Chapter 11: Special Considerations
- Introduction
- Coordination
- The Media
- Institutional Capacity Development
- Political Will
- Compound Emergencies
- Donor Fatigue
- Corruption
- State Sovereignty
- Equality
in Humanitarian Assistance and Relief Distribution
- Climate Change, and the Environmental Impacts of Disasters
- Early Warning
- Linking
Risk Reduction and Development
- Terrorism
- Global Disasters: SARS, Avian Influenza, and Other Emerging Epidemics
- Conclusion
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 576 pages, publication date: OCT-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7982-4
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7982-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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