Introduction to Emergency Management arms readers with the tools to address all phases of emergency management.

Covers everything from the social and environmental processes that generate hazards to vulnerability analysis, hazard mitigation, emergency response, and disaster recovery.

Contents

1. Introduction to Emergency Management
2. Emergency Management Stakeholders
3. Building an Effective Emergency Management Organization
4. Risk Perception and Communication
5. Principal Hazards in the United States
6. Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Analysis
7. Hazard Mitigation
8. Disaster Myths, Disaster Demands and Citizen Emergency Response
9. Preparedness for Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery
10. Organizational Emergency Response
11. Disaster Recovery
12. Evaluation
13. International Emergency Management
14. Professional Accountability
15. Future Directions in Emergency Management

Index

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