The recent devastation caused by tsunamis, hurricanes and wildfires highlights the need for highly trained professionals who can develop effective strategies in response to these disasters. This invaluable resource arms readers with the tools to address all phases of emergency management. It covers everything from the social and environmental processes that generate hazards to vulnerability analysis, hazard mitigation, emergency response, and disaster recovery.

Introduction to Emergency Management

Politics & Social Sciences

Lindell, Michael K.

Prater, Carla

Perry, Ronald W.

Social Sciences

wiley

In order for a community to be truly prepared to respond to any type of emergency, it must develop effective emergency planning. Emergency Planning guides readers through the steps of developing these plans, offering a number of strategies that will help ensure success. It delves into the patterns of human disaster behavior, social psychology, and communication as well as the basics of generic protective actions, planning concepts, implementation, and action.

Emergency Planning

Sociology

The social psychology of civil defense (The Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers series)

Lexington

Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities (Communicating Effectively in Multicultural Contexts)

9/11. Tornadoes. Emergency preparedness. Whether explaining parts per million to a community exposed to contaminated groundwater or launching a campaign to encourage home carbon monoxide testing, an effective message is paramount to the desired result: an increased understanding of health risk.    Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities is the first book to address the theory and practice of disseminating disaster warnings and hazard education messages to multiethnic communities. Authors Michael K. Lindell and Ronald W. Perry introduce theory-based reasoning as a basis for understanding warning dissemination and public education, devoting specific attention to the community context of emergency warning delivery and response. Through these principles of human behavior, readers can apply risk communication information to virtually any specific disaster agent with which they may be concerned.    This volume is recommended for practitioners in private emergency management and federal, state, and local governments, as well as students studying risk communication, health communication, emergency management, and environmental policy and management.    

Self-Help

Sage Publications, Inc.

9/11. Tornadoes. Emergency preparedness. Whether explaining parts per million to a community exposed to contaminated groundwater or launching a campaign to encourage home carbon monoxide testing, an effective message is paramount to the desired result: an increased understanding of health risk. Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities is the first book to address the theory and practice of disseminating disaster warnings and hazard education messages to multiethnic communities. Authors Michael K. Lindell and Ronald W. Perry introduce theory-based reasoning as a basis for understanding warning dissemination and public education, devoting specific attention to the community context of emergency warning delivery and response. Through these principles of human behavior, readers can apply risk communication information to virtually any specific disaster agent with which they may be concerned. This volume is recommended for practitioners in private emergency management and federal, state, and local governments, as well as students studying risk communication, health communication, emergency management, and environmental policy and management.

A decade has passed since the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in the spring of 1980, and the people living close to the volcano are still learning to cope with its ever-present danger. Using a sociological approach, "Living with Mt. St. Helens" examines how the residents of Toutle and Lexington, Washington, responded to the catastrophe. Employing statistical surveys, personal interviews, and a review of hazard management literature, Perry and Lindell analyze and interpret the ways residents reacted during and after the eruption. Their work contains valuable information for emergency managers who wish to inform, educate, and protect the general public from danger.

Living With Mount St. Helens: Human Adjustment to Volcano Hazards

Washington State Univ Pr

What is a Disaster? Addresses the most basic question in the field: that of defining the phenomenon of study. For theoretical advancement, it is important that researchers begin to develop a consensus about the meaning of disasters and related phenomena. With the rise in international terrorism, one must clarify whether these events are disasters and if so, what kind of disasters. Similarly, in addition to natural disasters, do we include riots, explosions, nuclear power plant accidents, damn collapses, and land subsidence under the same conceptual umbrella? What practical and theoretical differences does it make if the same label is used or not used for such different situations? What is a Disaster? Brings together twelve social scientists representing eight disciplines and seven countries to share their definition and vision of disasters. In the process, a wide range of views are expressed and issues raised regarding the relationship of academic versus practical definitions, the impact of grouping types of disasters in different ways, and the epistemologies on which theoretical growth should rest. The forum provided involves the presentation of each author's views, followed by a discussant's critique, and closed with a response from the author. The editor's close the volume with discussions of the theoretical framework of disaster research and an agenda for disaster research in the twenty-first century.

What Is A Disaster?: New Answers to Old Questions

Quarantelli, E. L.

Xlibris, Corp.

What Is a Disaster?

Xlibris

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Introduction to Emergency Management

Emergency Planning

The social psychology of civil defense (The Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers series)

Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities (Communicating Effectively in Multicultural Contexts)

Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities (Communicating Effectively in Multicultural Contexts)

Living With Mount St. Helens: Human Adjustment to Volcano Hazards

What Is A Disaster?: New Answers to Old Questions

What Is a Disaster?