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Disaster Management and Preparedness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Disaster Management and Preparedness

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-11-22
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Detailing methods for preparing organizations for disasters, this book discusses not only tried and true tactics, but also areas often overlooked during the reactive and post-disaster phases. The authors address special considerations important in planning for disaster management, from chemical spills, floods, aircraft crashes, and terrorist attack

Disaster Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Disaster Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and reduction and developments studies, opening up new insights in accessible language with practical applications. It also offers to academics the insights of the enormous experience practitioners have accumulated, highlighting gaps in research and challenging assumptions and theories against the reality of experie...

International Disaster Management Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

International Disaster Management Ethics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.

Disaster Management
  • Language: en

Disaster Management

A book on Disaster Management

A Dictionary of Disaster Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

A Dictionary of Disaster Management

A Dictionary of Disaster Management offers over 200 terms covering different disasters from a social science perspective, brining together insights from many different disciplines including sociology, political science, history, anthropology, and natural science. It also features practical terms, key concepts in disaster research, and important organizations involved in disaster management. Terms include famine, disaster diplomacy, gender intersectionality, and humanitarian principles allowing readers to access definitions on the most important topics within this developing field. Illustrations and web links offer additional context and resources. This work focuses on the practical managerial dimension of disaster management as well as research approaches and methods and covers terms that a student in an intermediate or advanced course on disaster management will need to understand. This is an essential reference source for students and professionals in this area.

Disaster Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Disaster Management

Overall this book expands on the problematic nature of disaster management.It has done so by stressing how the basic conceptual basis of disaster management,preparedness,has little scientific grounding and is plagued by conflicting interpretations,all of which suit organisational demands rather than the potential victims needs.Further it reviews related to hazard vulnerbility,disaster event characteristcs and pre-impact emergency management interventions as determinants of disaster impacts.It illustrates global patterns in disaster risk and development and introduces the concept of sustainable development as vision for creating disaster-resilient places.Further it outlines a vision for IT-enhanced disaster management in terms of six areas of IT-based capabilities with existing IT use in disaster management and to highlight how to progress would have tangible positive impacts.

Disaster Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Disaster Management

Regular famines, frequent earthquakes, repeated floods, and similar natural calamities have always threatened human lives on earth. These environmental turbulences, in the recent times, have increased manifolds and the repercussions are felt day in and out. Uttarakhand was totally washed down by the 2014 Floods, Kathmandu got devastated by the 2015 Earthquake, and the list is endless. These increasing threats posed by the recurring natural disasters have made disaster management a prerequisite! This book provides various dimensions of Disaster Management, causes of disasters—both natural and manmade, threats posed and the ways of managing the same. Divided into 28 chapters, and organized i...

Disaster Management and Human Health Risk IV
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Disaster Management and Human Health Risk IV

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-20
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  • Publisher: WIT Press

As human population has continued to concentrate in urban areas, the number of people and the value of property affected by disasters, both natural and human-generated, have grown as well. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, and forest fires have all taken their toll so have such anthropogenic disasters as pipeline failures, industrial spills, and terrorist attacks. The contents of this volume consist of papers presented at the fourth in a series of conferences convened to assess the potential risk from various disasters and discuss ways to prevent or mitigate damage. The papers have been contributed by experts on public health, security, and disaster management from academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include Disaster Analysis; Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation; Emergency Preparedness; Risk Mitigation; Risk and Security; Safety and Resilience; Socio-economic Issues; Health Risk; Human Factors; Multi-hazard Risk Assessment; Case Studies.

Introduction to International Disaster Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

Introduction to International Disaster Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-10-17
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

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...

Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. The chapters focus on disaster preparedness and management, including pre-event planning and mitigation, crisis leadership and emergency response, and disaster recovery. Specific events discussed in this book include a broad spectrum of disasters such as tropical storms and typhoons in the Philippines; earthquakes in China; tsunamis in Indonesia, Japan, and Maldives; and bushfires in Australia. The book aims to generate discussions about improved risk reduction strategies throughout the region. It seeks to provide a comparative perspective across countries to draw lessons from three perspectives: public policy, humanitarian systems, and community engagement.