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Introduction to Emergency Management is a practical reference for professionals and students who need to understand the process of disaster response planning and mitigation.
The book details the world's leading emergency management agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), covering its history, organization, programs, and operations as well as the Federal Response Plan (FRP). The authors examine the roles, responsibilities, and interrelationship between FEMA, state and local emergency management systems and other critical partners. They also explain the government emergency resources available before, during, and after crises. Practical and easy-to-reference, the text includes a chapter on terrorism and the events of September 11, 2001, and reviews their impact on disaster management and emergency planning in the future.
This essential text includes the latest information on the Office of Homeland Security and several detailed appendices which include: a list of organizations involved in disaster management, a directory of disaster management and terrorism Web sites, a glossary of disaster management terms and acronyms, and a compendium of domestic and international disaster statistics.
* Includes numerous diagrams, illustrations, and statistics on disaster management history and concepts
* Provides case studies and examples of disasters from around the world to connect theory to real-world application
* Features a special chapter on September 11th, terrorism, and the new world order of disaster management
- Sales Rank: #3075168 in Books
- Published on: 2003-06-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .87" h x 6.68" w x 10.30" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 273 pages
Review
Would recommend that all who teach college emergency management courses get a copy to review for consideration as a textbook. ...it is, as the back cover notes practical, easy to use, and does a very good job covering "the roles, responsibilities and interrelationships that exist among state and local emergency management systems, FEMA, and other critical partners. - B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM Higher Education Project Manager, Emergency Management Institute, National Emergency Training Center, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
...this book provides a comprehensive overview of the emergency management discipline. - Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research News
Although books on security, by the very nature of the industry, are particularly suited to action, it's remarkable how many of them are lifeless and abstract. Not so this book on emergency management, where the protagonists - disasters - take center stage. The authors load the book with bracing case studies and examples, which have infinitely more impact than generalizations and theories. But the case studies go beyond giving life to the book. They also inspire ideas that emergency managers can themselves implement. Two appendices offer a wealth of resources, including a list of emergency management Web sites and a glossary of acronyms. The combination of this material with the case studies, facts and figures, examples, diagrams, and templates makes this book a fine resource. - Security Management
From the Back Cover
Introduction to Emergency Management provides a unique and practical insight into the current strategies of disaster response planning and disaster mitigation. Emergency Management, Industrial Health and Safety, and Security students and professionals will find this an essential resource that they will refer to again and again. The book outlines the worldÂ’s leading emergency management agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), covering its history, organization, programs, and operations as well as the Federal Response Plan (FRP).
Highly practical and extremely easy to reference, this book provides the latest information of FEMA's emerging role within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The authors have also included a special and timely chapter on terrorism the recounts the events of September, 11, 2001, and what they mean to disaster management and emergency planning in the future.
The authors explain the roles, responsibilities, and interrelationship that exist among state and local emergency management systems, FEMA, and other critical partners. They also include federal emergency resources that are available to corporations and private organizations for dealing with all phases of a crisis - information critical for corporate executives, security managers, and business continuity experts.
Offering a current list of disaster management organizations' Web sites, a glossary of terms and acronyms, and a reference compendium of domestic and international disaster statistics, Introduction to Emergency Management is an invaluable resource.
Key Features:
* Includes numerous diagrams, illustrations, and statistics on disaster management history and concepts
* Provides case studies and examples of disasters from around the world to connect theory to real-world application
* Features a special chapter on September 11th, terrorism, and the new world order of disaster management
About the Author
George Haddow currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Prior to joining George Washington University, 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. In these positions, Mr. Haddow was involved in the day-to-day management of FEMA responsible for the Director's communications; policy formulation in the areas of disaster response, public/private partnerships, public information, environmental protection and disaster mitigation including the design and implementation of FEMA's national disaster mitigation initiative entitled Project Impact: Building Disaster Resistant Communities. As the Agency liaison with the White House for Presidential appointments to headquarters and FEMA regional positions, Mr. Haddow worked directly with the FEMA Director and the White House Office of Presidential Personnel in the recruitment and the hiring of all Presidential appointments at FEMA. He also managed FEMA's disaster management and mitigation projects in Argentina, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Ecuador and the Bahamas and coordinated FEMA activities with Korea and South Africa.
Jane A. Bullock has worked in emergency management for over 20 years most recently as the Chief of Staff to James Lee Witt the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). 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. Represented the Director and the Administration with Congress, State and municipal governments, foreign officials, constituent groups and the media. Served as a principal spokesperson for the Agency's programs both before, during and after disasters. Chief architect of FEMA's Project Impact: Building Disaster Resistant Communities, a nationwide effort by communities and businesses to implement prevention and risk reduction programs. Principal on a project to create National Disaster Response and Mitigation system for Argentina and in six Central American and Caribbean countries. Served as part of the Clinton Administration's communications team for the Y2K issue.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
An Excellent Intro to Emergency Management
By Bob Mellinger
"Introduction to Emergency Management" is a straight-forward and insightful entre into the world of public emergency management. George Haddow and Jane Bullock are former senior FEMA officials that exerienced it first hand. And it shows.
I've added this book as one of my reference texts for the Organizational Continuity sessions I conduct. I also plan to use it in an workshop series I'm developing. It would be a great textbook for any course on Emergency Management AND it's also a good read for anyone interested in getting a taste of Emergency Management. I truly wish this book was in print when I took Emergency Management in grad school.
Highly recommended !!!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Publish Or Perish, Cut And Paste
By Robert I. Hedges
"Introduction to Emergency Management" (Second Edition) is an informative book which provides an adequate introduction to emergency management at an undergraduate level, but contains some systematic structural flaws that detract from its stature in the field. The book was written by two former FEMA officials, George Haddow and Jane Bullock. They occupied key positions at FEMA during the Clinton administration, and obviously respect their former boss, FEMA Director James Lee Witt. For the record, Witt was one of Clinton's numerous Arkansan appointees, and was certainly one of the best. Witt dramatically elevated FEMA's stature within the government and embraced an all-hazards approach to emergency preparedness and response. I applaud Witt's efforts and service.
I would have expected two of Witt's disciples to have written an excellent book, and in some areas the book really delivers. Unfortunately, in others the authors use their position for seemingly self-serving feuds with the policies of other administrations, and are particularly critical of the George W. Bush administration for the obvious shift to focusing on terrorism after the events of September 11, 2001. While I actually do agree that FEMA needs to retain an all-hazards perspective, the terrorism threat is downplayed (it gets one chapter) in this book, and their views on the future terrorist threat are obviously viewed through rose-colored glasses. Their biggest issues with the Bush administration seem to be the loss of prestige of putting FEMA under DHS, and the scuttling of "Project Impact", a FEMA program that was discontinued for being a lower budgetary priority than other things (like terrorism) that the Bush administration had on their plate. Both authors were heavily associated with "Project Impact".
The book was written pre-Hurricane Katrina, and that's unfortunate (presumably the third edition addresses that issue). An ironic passage is found on p. 62: "For a city like New Orleans, however, which is built below sea level and where relocation is impractical, levees can be used effectively to protect flood-prone areas." Or not. The New Orleans levees were not well designed or maintained, but the authors gloss over the fact that disasters are very likely to happen when a city is built adjacent to the water below sea level in an area frequented by hurricanes. Certainly there were more problems with the Katrina disaster than FEMA alone can be blamed for, but the politically easy policy that has encouraged reconstruction in the same place is one that is utterly bound to fail, regardless of the levee system installed, or regardless of FEMA funding for flood mitigation. The next chapter concludes in typically obtuse style: "Most consider President Bush's election loss to be partly attributable to the federal government's inability to manage domestic disasters". What? President Bush actually won the election (twice), and even if he had lost, I would need to see concrete evidence to convince me that the loss was in any meaningful way attributable to domestic emergency response. FEMA budgets and priorities do not historically play crucial roles in Presidential elections.
The book has several flaws: careful readers will note the foreshadowing of one of the larger ones if they read the Acknowledgements (p. xv) and discover that a long list of graduate students are thanked for "their hard work in conducting the preliminary research and draft for this book". Yes, it's a not uncommon problem: teachers (both authors are Adjunct Professors at The George Washington University) want to publish ("publish or perish"), but don't want to or have the time to do their own original research or writing, so they have their students do it. (I have seen this at another university firsthand.) The students may be assigned the work, compelled to do it, do it as part of a thesis or project, or do it for some other reason, but the fact is that George Haddow and Jane Bullock have their names on the cover, and if their acknowledgements are accurate, their students did a large part of the work writing this book.
I certainly don't know who wrote what, but I can definitively say that the quality of the prose varies dramatically throughout the book, making me wonder how many authors the book effectively has. This is one of the primary reasons I gave the book a two star rating, though it's far from the only one. An even bigger reason is that enormous swaths of the book are essentially cut and pasted from government publications or web sites. Page after page is taken from government sources, which, unlike privately authored material, can be cited in bulk with no problems, copyright or otherwise. Some of the material was not even updated by the authors, when a quick perusal would have shown it needed to be. On p. 110, for example, in the middle of a lengthy passage credited to FEMA, the book (which was written in 2005, copyrighted in 2006) states "FEMA expects the [Capability Assessment for Readiness] report to be completed and distributed to the President and the U.S. Congress in the first quarter of 2001". That's just sloppy, and it's patently unacceptable. Unfortunately it's also not the sole issue: extremely obscure acronyms are used repeatedly without defining them, another subtle sign that the book was written by multiple people and they were not properly coordinated.
The best thing in the book (pp. 319-325), is a case study written by Roz Lasker (The New York Academy of Medicine, September 2004) about readiness in terrorism scenarios, and specifically dealing with how people actually behave in emergencies versus how officials expect them to behave in those emergencies. It was extremely insightful, and I applaud the authors for including it in the book. The authors also compiled a very nice set of appendices, although Appendix D was taken wholesale from a government Internet site and Appendix E, which is a self-justifying fluff piece about Homeland Security, was taken from the "Department of Security Results Agenda-August 2004".
This book does contain some good information. The basics of dealing with different hazards and mitigation strategies are well explained. Unfortunately the terrorism threat is downplayed despite the disproportionately large death (and monetary) toll of September 11, 2001 compared with the other disasters in the book (even in combination), and the book clearly contains bias (especially in the final chapter) in favor of their former employer, and against other administrations which had to deal with much different problems than they confronted. Finally, the quality of writing is not what you would expect from two distinguished civil servants; for these reasons in combination with the enormous percentage of the book that is simply a restating of information commonly available on government Internet sites and in easily obtainable publications, I cannot recommend this book.
The shell of the book is strong; I hope that the third edition addressees the weaknesses of this edition and is markedly improved.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Easy Flowing Read
By T. Cochran
For a easy flowing read, buy this book. It has plenty of pertinent information mainly from a federal emergency standpoint.
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