Disaster Management Pdf Ebook Download
Laveta Nachman
On a daily basis, the United States, and the entire world in general, face the reality and responsibility of managing hazards, emergencies, and disasters. A disaster may strike at any time with little or no warning. Incidents may also occur with speed, surprise, and violence. Any location is vulnerable to some form of hazard.
The 2020 COVID-19 outbreak is just one indication that dangers, often unanticipated, may impact an area, region, nation, or in the case of COVID-19, the global community. Thus, communities throughout the world must acknowledge the importance and relevance of emergency management with respect to an array of diverse threats.
Foundations of Emergency Management highlights the importance of effective emergency management and provide a cumulative overview and introduction to the fundamental aspects of emergency management. Emergency management is a discipline of global importance.
Foundations of Emergency Management examines the history, hazards, power, role, future, and other aspects of emergency management. To help the reader comprehend concepts covered, the publication includes learning objectives, numerous images / graphics, chapter summaries, key terms, references, and thought and discussion questions.
CHAPTER 1 Foundations of Emergency Management
CHAPTER 2 An Overview of the First Two Hundred Years of Emergency Management in the United States
CHAPTER 3 Principal Hazards Facing the United States
CHAPTER 4 The Department of Homeland Security
CHAPTER 5 Power and Policy of Stakeholders and First Responders
CHAPTER 6 Roles in Emergency Management
CHAPTER 7 Strategy
CHAPTER 8 Roles in Emergency Management: Volunteer Organizations and NGOs
CHAPTER 9 Role of the Emergency Manager and Developing an Effective Emergency Management Organization
CHAPTER 10 The Emergency Management Process: Risk Perception and Analysis, Prevention, and Hazard Mitigation
CHAPTER 11 The Emergency Management Process: Disaster Recovery
CHAPTER 12 Professionalization of Emergency Management
CHAPTER 13 International Emergency Management
CHAPTER 14 Future of Emergency Management
Dr. Wigginton is an associate professor at Troy University. His background includes Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the University of Mississippi Master of Criminal Justice Executive Cohort Program, Department of Legal Studies, with the University of Mississippi; former Assistant Professor, Southeast Louisiana University and an adjunct professor with Tulane University; Senior Special Agent, United States Customs Service; Special Agent, United States Drug Enforcement Administration; detective and State Trooper, Louisiana State Police; police officer, New Orleans Police Department; and an United States Air Force Security Police Dog Handler with service in Vietnam. His education and training include a PhD in Criminal Justice, University of Southern Mississippi; MS from the University of New Orleans; MS from the University of Alabama; BA from Loyola University of New Orleans. He is also the author of numerous publications about the criminal justice system.
Dr. Jensen is Professor and Director of the Intelligence and Security program at The Citadel. His former professorship occurred at the University of Mississippi where he was Director of the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies. He served in an adjunct capacity as a senior behavioral scientist with the RAND Corporation. Dr. Jensen served as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 22 years; his FBI career included service as a field agent, a forensic examiner in the FBI Laboratory, and an instructor and assistant chief of the Behavioral Science Unit. He has published extensively and lectured throughout the world. Dr. Jensen received a BS degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, an MA from Kent State University, and a PhD from the University of Maryland.
Focusing efforts to mitigate the impacts and protect against the complex threats and hazards in today's modern world requires a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and environmental systems around us. Emergency managers use geographic information system (GIS) technology with data-driven insights to better prepare and help their communities respond and recover from significant events.
Understand, identify, and build strategies that mitigate natural hazards and human-caused threats using the science of geography. Using GIS, areas of risk and vulnerability are highlighted by combining critical infrastructure, hazard, and demographics data into a single map.
Anticipate needs during rapidly changing conditions with real-time dashboards that aid critical decision-making and maximize the effectiveness of emergency management operations. GIS builds shared situational awareness across response teams, stakeholders, and the public.
Conduct damage assessments, build a reporting database, and monitor debris removal with field data collecting and reporting applications. Using GIS expedites response and recovery efforts, monitors the status of community lifelines, and helps you communicate recovery resources to the public.
A natural disaster can hit at any moment. For search and rescue teams, the first hours after the event are critical. The ability to gain situational awareness by gathering information quickly and efficiently is key to saving lives.
The ever-expanding role of emergency managers requires systems and solutions that help agencies provide quick response to frequent and systemic threats and hazards. Esri's emergency management operations solutions provide a set of real-time, configurable apps designed to support your mission-critical decision-making. Maintain situational and operational awareness, quickly analyze the incident impact, assess the damage, deploy resources, and engage the public with GIS maps built to scale.
Esri was founded to help solve some of the world's most difficult problems. For over 25 years, the Esri DRP has provided GIS support to our users and the global community during disasters and crises of all types and sizes.
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