
Introduction to Emergency Management
- 8th Edition - August 7, 2024
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Authors: George Haddow, Jane Bullock, Damon Coppola
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 7 0 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 7 0 2 - 7
Introduction to Emergency Management, Eighth Edition sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency management professionals. This truste… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFully updated throughout, the new edition includes revised workflows and communications; explanations of FEMA, state, and local emergency management organizational policies; the growing role of the private sector in emergency management; Covid-19 pandemic preparedness and response; and the impact of climate change on emergency management policies and practices, among other timely examples and application areas. Each chapter features all-new case studies on recent disasters, key terms, summary points, and self-review questions. Student and faculty use is supported by an expanded ancillary package, featuring a fuller instructor manual, lecture PowerPoint Slides, and linked documents, data sets, references, and video examples.
- Empowers the next generation of emergency management professionals, applying core disaster management approaches and principles across timely, illustrative case studies
- Considers the impact of climate change, among other current global challenges, on emergency management policies and practices
- Reviews and instructs in emergency management communication, workflows, and organizational policy best practices
- Contains an updated, online instructor manual, lecture PowerPoint Slides, further case studies, video examples, and other supporting materials
2. Natural and Technological Hazards and Risk Assessment
3. The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Mitigation
4. The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Preparedness
5. Communications
6. The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Response
7. The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Recovery
8. International Disaster Management
9. Emergency Management and the Terrorist Threat
10. The Future of Emergency Management
- Edition: 8
- Published: August 7, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 584
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443237010
- eBook ISBN: 9780443237027
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George Haddow
George Haddow currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA) at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and previously served as an Adjunct Faculty and Research Scientist, Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, George Washington University in Washington, DC. at Prior to joining academia, Mr. Haddow worked for eight years in the Office of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the White House Liaison and the deputy Chief of Staff. He is a founding partner of Bullock & Haddow LLC, a disaster management consulting firm.
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Jane Bullock
Jane A. Bullock served more than 20 years in support of Federal emergency management efforts, culminating as the Chief of Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for Director James Lee Witt. In this position Ms. Bullock served as principal advisor to the Director on all Agency programmatic and administrative activities, provided advice and recommendations to the Director on policies required to carry out the mission of the agency; managed the day-to-day operations of the Agency; directed, monitored, and evaluated Agency strategic and communication processes; and oversaw administration of the Agency’s resources, including the disaster relief fund. In 2001, Ms. Bullock co-founded the disaster management consulting firm Bullock & Haddow, LLC. She currently serves on the governing boards of the National Earthquake Hazards Program, the Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and others.
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