U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century

From Disaster to Catastrophe
Herausgeber: Rubin, Claire B.; Cutter, Susan L.; Gall, Melanie

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Produktbeschreibung

Updated to include the latest research in the hazards and disasters field, U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century continues the tradition of giving readers access to exemplary case studies drawn from a wide variety of hazards as well as academic and applied fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032783420
• ISBN-10: 1032783427
• Artikelnr.: 71807854

Autorenporträt

Susan L. Cutter is Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina where she co-directs the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute. She is an internationally recognized scholar in the field, producing more than 13 books, and 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She has led post-event field teams across a range of events from September 11th World Trade Center attack to Hurricane Katrina. Melanie Gall co-directs the Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security at Arizona State University. She operates the Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States which provides the most comprehensive data on the monetary and human impacts of hazards accessible to the public. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Natural Hazards Review. Claire B. Rubin has almost 40 years of experience in the field of emergency management, having worked as an independent researcher, academic, practitioner, and consultant. From 1998 to 2014, Ms. Rubin was affiliated with the Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is the co-founder and former Managing Editor of The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Challenges - Recent and Future 2 Emerging Tipping Points in Policy and
Practice 3 Hard Lessons in the Human Nature of Pandemics: COVID-19 Response
and Recovery in the United States 4 Transporting Toxics 5 Rural Tornado
Outbreaks: Inequities in Exposure, Response, and Recovery 6 Wildfires:
Firestorms, Smoke, and Unintended Consequences 7 From Phoenix to Buffalo:
Experiences with Extreme Temperature 8 Not Enough Water: Drought
Emergencies in the American Southwest 9 Climate Whiplash: Close Calls in
Managing Water in the American West 10 Heavy Precipitation and Flash
Flooding: Lessons from Vermont, Tennessee, Montana, and New York City 11
Hurricanes: Challenges in an Era of Rapid Intensification and Previously
Unthinkable Disasters 12 Foreshadowing the Future: What is Looming on the
Horizon? Afterword: Hurricanes Helene and Milton About the Authors