Technological hazards arise from our individual and collective use of technology and present a very different set of problems and public response from their natural counterparts. This authoritative new text describes how society perceives these risks, how it responds to them, and how it develops public policy to manage them.

Living with Risk: The Geography of Technological Hazards

Science & Math

Cutter, Susan

Earth Sciences

Hodder Education Publishers

U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe

U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the current public sector emergency management systems sufficient to handle future disasters given the environmental and social changes underway? In this timely book, Claire B. Rubin and Susan L. Cutter focus on disaster recovery efforts, community resilience, and public policy issues of related to recent disasters and what they portend for the future. Beginning with the external societal forces influencing shifts in policy and practice, the next six chapters provide in-depth accounts of recent disasters― the Joplin, Tuscaloosa-Birmingham, and Moore tornadoes, Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires. The book concludes with a chapter on loss accounting and a summary chapter on what has gone right, what has gone wrong, and why the federal government may no longer be a reliable partner in emergency management. Accessible and clearly written by authorities in a wide-range of related fields with local experiences, this book offers a rich array of case studies and describes their significance in shifting emergency management policy and practice, in the United States during the past decade. Through a careful blending of contextual analysis and practical information, this book is essential reading for students, an interested public, and professionals alike.

U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century

Rubin, Claire B.

Reference

Routledge

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