Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management, Second Edition
- 20h 54m
- Ali Farazmand (ed)
- CRC Press
- 2014
More than 12 years have passed since the publication of the first edition of Crisis and Emergency Management. During that time numerous disasters—from 9/11 to massive earthquakes in Iran and China, to the giant Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Fukushima Tsunami and ensuing nuclear meltdown—have changed the way we manage catastrophic events. With contributions from leading experts, this second edition features 40 new chapters that address recent worldwide crises and what we have learned from emergency responses to them.
See What’s New in the Second Edition:
- Up-to-date concepts, theories, and practices
- Analysis of recent disasters and their effect on emergency management
- Policy and managerial lessons
- Suggestions for capacity building in crisis and emergency management
The book covers a wide range of international issues using critical, empirical, and quantitative analyses. It discusses various approaches to topics such as resolving political tension and terrorism issues, the potential use of biological weapons, and the role of public relations in crisis. The author offers insight into organizational and community resiliency development; a "surprise management" theory in practice for upgrading the knowledge and skills in managing crises and governing emergencies; and better and more effective organizational, political, social, and managerial coordination in the processes. He presents case studies that enhance and advance the future theory and practice of crisis and emergency management, while at the same time providing practical advice that can be put to use immediately.
Managing crises and governing emergencies in such an age of challenges demands a different kind of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that were not available yesterday. This book gives you valuable information with applications at the macro, micro, organizational, and interorganizational levels, preparing you for emergency management in an increasingly globalized and uncertain world.
About the Editor
Ali Farazmand is professor of public administration and director of the MPA Program and the Ethics Academy at Florida Atlantic University, where he also teaches intellectual development (philosophy and theory) of public administration, organization theory and behavior, organization change and public management, public personnel and labor relations, collective bargaining/ negotiation, administrative ethics and accountability, globalization and sound governance, comparative/development public administration, modern systems of government, and bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, and executive leadership.
Farazmand received his PhD and MPA from the Maxwell School, as well as an MS in educational administration from Syracuse University and a BS in business administration from Tehran University. He is the author and editor of 24 authored and edited books and over 140 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He has published in Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, Public Organization Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Administration Quarterly, International Journal of Public Administration, and American Review of Public Administration. He is also the founding editor in chief of Public Organization Review: A Global Journal and the new editor in chief of the International Journal of Public Administration. Farazmand is a leading, globally recognized international scholar and a global consultant on public administration and governance reforms, organizational change and public management, organization design and performance, crisis and emergency management, public sector quality and productivity management, leadership and performance management, and globalization and global studies. His original groundbreaking contributions to knowledge are recognized in various areas of social sciences: organization theory/behavior, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, chaos and transformation theories, institutional theory, crisis and emergency management, surprise management theory, organizational elite theory, administrative state, sound governance, and globalization.
Farazmand's past select publications include The State, Bureaucracy, and Revolution: Development or System Maintenance? (Praeger, 1989); Modern Systems of Government: Exploring the Bureaucrats and Politicians' Relationships (Sage, 1997); Modern Organizations: Theory and Practice, 1st and 2nd editions (Praeger, 1994, 2002); Administrative Reform in Developing Nations (JAI Press, 2002); Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration, 1st and 2nd editions (Marcel Dekker, 1991, and Taylor & Francis, 2001); Public Enterprise Management (Greenwood Press, 1997); Privatization or Reform? (Praeger, 2001); Crisis and Emergency Management (Marcel Dekker/Taylor & Francis, 2001); Sound Governance (Praeger, 2004); Strategic Public Personnel Administration: Building and Managing Human Capital for the 21st Century in two volumes (Praeger, 2007); Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration (Taylor & Francis, 2007); and Bureaucracy and Administration (1994, 2009).
In this Book
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Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Practice
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Meeting Diversity in the Midst of Adversity: An Intercultural Communication Training Framework for Refugee-Assistance Crisis Management
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Global Crisis in Public Service and Administration
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Crisis in the US Administrative State
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Managing through a Crisis: A Case Study of the Orange County, California, Bankruptcy
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From Texas City to Exxon Valdez: What Have We Learned about Managing Marine Disasters?
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What Disaster Response Management Can Learn from Chaos Theory
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Psychology of Evacuation and the Design of Policy: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina, Ike, and Sandy
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Role of Technology and Human Factors in Emergency Management
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Evolution of Emergency Management in America: From a Troubling Past to an Uncertain Future
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Improvised Explosive Devices
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American Presidential Crisis Management under Kennedy: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Collaboration, Consolidation, and Coordination in the Broward Sheriff's Office: A New Paradigm in Public Safety and Emergency Management?
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Emergency Management for Radiological Events: Lessons Learned from Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Reactor Accidents
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Budgetary Assistance for Nonprofits in Disaster
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Security for Sale: The Pros and Cons of Equipment Contracts
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Managing Refugee-Assistance Crises in the Twenty-First Century: The Intercultural Communication Factor
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Managing Human and Natural Disasters in Developing Nations: Emergency Management and the Public Bureaucracy
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Image Construction in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina: Preparedness, Response, and the Politics–Administration Dichotomy in New Orleans Emergency Management
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Ethics in Crisis Management
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Management of Hazardous Chemicals during Natural Disasters
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How a Navigation Channel Contributed to Most of the Flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina
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Examining Intergovernmental Relations in Response to Catastrophic Disasters: Hurricane Katrina in 2005
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Learning from the Katrina Crisis: A Global and International Perspective with Implications for Future Crisis Management
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Japan's Disaster Governance: Initial Response to Huge Tsunamis and Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
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Crisis and Emergency Management in Korea
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Coping with Crisis and Disaster: Hong Kong Disaster Plan and Contingency Plan for Natural Disasters
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Integrating Public Administration, Science, and Community Action: A Case of Early-Warning Success in Qinglong County for the Magnitude 7.8 Tangshan Earthquake
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Altruism in Chinese Emergency Management: The Case of Wenchuan Earthquake
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Crisis Management in Japan: Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 and the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011
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Benchmarks and Standards for Emergency Management in India and the United States
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Crisis in Governance and the Arab Spring
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1989 Rail Disaster at Clapham in South London
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Mitigation versus Prevention: A View from the Local Government Level
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Advancing Community Resilience to Disasters: Considerations for Theory, Policy, and Practice
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Global Resilience to Enhance Crisis and Emergency Management
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Contemporary Community Resilience: Successes, Challenges, and the Future of Disaster Recovery
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Emergency Managers for the New Millennium
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Coastal Hazard Mitigation in Florida
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Disaster Study, Crisis Study, and the Discipline of Public Administration: A Personal Reflection
