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Emergency management: The american experience 1900-2010 (2nd Ed.)
The American Experience 1900-2010, Second Edition
Coordinator: Rubin Claire B.
Language: EnglishSubject for Emergency management: The american experience 1900-2010:
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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Chapter 1: Introduction: 110 Years of Disaster Response and Emergency Management in the United States; Claire B. Rubin
Chapter 2: Focusing Events in the Early Twentieth Century: A Hurricane, Two Earthquakes, and a Pandemic; David Butler
Chapter 3: The Expanding Role of the Federal Government: 1927–1950; David Butler
Chapter 4: The Formative Years: 1950–1978; Keith Bea
Chapter 5: Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979–2001; Richard T. Sylves
Chapter 6: Emergency Management Restructured: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of Actions Taken since 9/11; John R. Harrald
Chapter 7: 2005 Events and Outcomes: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond; Melanie Gall and Susan L. Cutter
Chapter 8: The System Is Tested: Response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; John R. Harrald
Chapter 9: From a Painful Past to an Uncertain Future; Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley
Chapter 10: The Evolving Federal Role in Emergency Management: Policies and Processes; Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley
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