Introduction to Homeland Security
Principles of All-Hazards Risk Management
- 6th Edition - October 28, 2020
- Authors: George Haddow, Jane Bullock, Damon Coppola
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 1 3 7 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 1 3 8 - 7
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Request a sales quoteWritten by renowned experts, Introduction to Homeland Security, Sixth Edition, informs users about the concepts and bedrock principles of homeland security. Readers will gain a solid appreciation of the broad range of topics that fall within the expanse of the homeland security umbrella and understand how and why they are so closely interconnected. The text will also provide an overview of the evolutionary process behind modern homeland security structures, which helps users to understand why certain functions exist and how they contribute to national and local security efforts. Unlike most books that focus solely on terrorism, this text covers an expansive range of homeland security topics including all-hazards emergency management, cybersecurity, border and transportation security, immigration and customs enforcement, and others.
- Updated material to cover new developments in the field such as increased terror attacks, cybersecurity safeguards, and administrative changes
- Balanced account of homeland security in all of its aspects
- Authoritative voices from content experts
- Critical thinking exercises included for each topic
Students in undergraduate, certificate, graduate, and doctoral programs focusing on a range of homeland security concentrations inclusive of emergency management, counterterrorism studies, transportation security, border security and immigration, cybersecurity, community resilience, and others
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword to Introduction to Homeland Security
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Homeland security: the concept, the organization
- Introduction
- Critical thinking
- A new concept of homeland security
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Other federal departments responsible for the homeland security enterprise
- Critical thinking
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 2. Historic overview of the terrorist threat
- Introduction
- Before it was called homeland security: from the 1800s to the creation of FEMA
- Critical thinking
- World Trade Center bombing
- Murrah Federal Building bombing
- Critical thinking
- Khobar Towers bombing, Saudi Arabia
- Critical thinking
- USS Cole bombing, Yemen
- September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
- The creation of the Department of Homeland Security: 2001–04
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- The 9/11 Commission
- Critical thinking
- Homeland security focus on terrorism results in a disaster: Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
- Critical thinking
- Obama administration
- Trump administration
- A pandemic strikes the United States
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 3. Hazards
- Introduction
- The hazards
- Natural hazards
- Epidemics and pandemics
- Critical thinking
- Technological hazards
- Terrorism (intentional) hazards
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Difficulty of predicting terror attacks in the United States
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 4. Governmental homeland security structures
- Introduction
- Department of Homeland Security organizational chart
- The Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security
- Preexisting offices moved into DHS in 2002
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- New offices and directorates
- Critical thinking
- Agency reorganization
- Critical thinking
- DHS budget
- Other agencies participating in community-level funding
- Critical thinking
- Activities by state and local organizations
- Homeland security activity of state and tribal governments
- Local government homeland security activities
- Critical thinking
- Role of private sector in homeland security and changes in business continuity and contingency planning
- Other homeland security structures
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 5. Intelligence counterterrorism
- Introduction
- The Intelligence Community
- The Intelligence Cycle
- Intelligence oversight
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (Department of Justice)
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- National Reconnaissance Office
- National Security Agency
- DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
- Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research
- Debate over the reach of intelligence activities
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 6. Border security, immigration, and customs enforcement
- Introduction
- Border security
- Immigration
- Customs enforcement
- Border security, immigration, and customs in the Department of Homeland Security
- The US Customs and Border Protection
- Critical thinking
- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Critical thinking
- The US Coast Guard
- US Citizenship and Immigration Services
- DHS Office of Biometric Identity Management
- State and local role in customs and immigration enforcement
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 7. Transportation safety and security
- Introduction
- The transportation network
- The National Infrastructure Protection Plan
- The Transportation Security Administration
- TSA components
- Trucking security
- Ports and shipping security
- Bus transportation security
- Railway transportation security
- FEMA Transit Security Grant program
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 8. Cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection
- Introduction
- Cybersecurity
- Cyberwarfare and cyberterrorism
- Cybercrime
- Cyberthreats
- The threat of rogue insiders
- Using the cyber network as a security tool
- Executive Order 13636: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
- DHS cybersecurity efforts
- Cybersecurity role of other federal agencies
- Critical thinking
- The Department of Defense
- The Department of State
- The National Science Foundation
- National Institute for Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce
- National Security Agency
- Critical thinking
- Private-sector cybersecurity
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Critical thinking
- DHS Infrastructure Security Division
- State and local governments
- Critical thinking
- Private sector
- International critical infrastructure considerations
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 9. All-hazards emergency response and recovery
- Introduction
- Response processes
- Legislative actions
- Budget
- Local response
- First-responder roles and responsibilities
- Local emergency managers
- Funding for first responders
- State response
- Volunteer group response
- DHS response agencies
- The Incident Command System
- Federal response
- The presidential disaster declaration process
- The preliminary damage assessment (PDA)
- FEMA declaration criteria
- The National Response Framework (NRF)
- Federal assistance in disaster response
- Chapter 10. Mitigation, prevention, and preparedness
- Introduction
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- National frameworks
- Mitigation plans, actions, and programs
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Prevention actions and programs
- Preparedness actions and programs
- Preparedness against biological and chemical attacks and accidents
- Specific challenges for biological/chemical terrorism incident management
- Nuclear and radiological preparedness
- Terrorism preparedness and mitigation: community issues
- Critical thinking
- The role of the private sector in mitigation and preparedness activities
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Exercises to foster preparedness
- Critical thinking
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 11. Communications
- Critical thinking
- Crisis communications
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- What are social media?
- Social media and disasters
- Building an effective disaster communications capability in a changing media world
- Critical thinking
- Communicating in the era of homeland security
- Critical thinking
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 12. Science and technology
- What you will learn
- Introduction
- Department of Homeland Security
- Critical thinking
- R&D efforts external to the Department of Homeland Security
- Conclusion
- Key terms
- Review questions
- Chapter 13. The future of homeland security
- Introduction
- FEMA history lesson
- Lessons for homeland security from the FEMA experience
- The future of emergency management in homeland security
- Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 880
- Language: English
- Edition: 6
- Published: October 28, 2020
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128171370
- eBook ISBN: 9780128171387
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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.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal, Bullock & Haddow LLC, Senior Fellow, Disaster Resilience Leadership Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USAJB
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.
Affiliations and expertise
President, Bullock and Haddow LLC, Reston, VA, USADC
Damon Coppola
Damon P. Coppola is the founder of Shoreline Risk LLC and a Partner with Bullock & Haddow LLC. He has extensive experience in disaster management capacity development, disaster risk management, and planning through his work with the United Nations; the World Bank Group; The US Federal Emergency Management Agency; and the US Army Corps of Engineers, among others. Mr. Coppola serves as a Senior Disaster Management Specialist at the Hawaii-based Pacific Disaster Center and is a faculty member at Loma Linda University and the University of Hawaii. He holds an M.E.M in Crisis, Emergency, and Risk Management from George Washington University and an A.R.M. from the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters.
Affiliations and expertise
Founder of Shoreline Risk LLC and a Partner with Bullock & Haddow LLC, Damon Coppola, CT, USARead Introduction to Homeland Security on ScienceDirect