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Managing disaster : strategies and policy perspectives

Author: Louise K Comfort
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.
Series: Duke Press policy studies.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Managing disaster.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1988
(OCoLC)568745627
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Louise K Comfort
ISBN: 0822308002 9780822308003 0822308169 9780822308164
OCLC Number: 16356845
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xii, 420 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The policy problem --
Designing policy for action : the emergency management system --
Structuring problems for policy action --
Mitigation --
Current policy issues in mitigation --
Natural hazard mitigation and development : an exploration of the roles of the public and private sectors --
The design and implementation of disaster mitigation policy --
Agenda setting in nonstructural hazard mitigation policy --
Preparedness --
Current policy and implementation in disaster preparedness --
Research based disaster planning : conditions for implementation --
Federal preparedness for hazardous and toxic waste disaster --
Response --
Management issues in emergency response --
Incresing problem solving capacity between organizations : the role of information in managing the May 13, 1985, tornado disaster in western Pennsylvania --
The impact of stress on emergency service personnel : policy issues in emergency response Recovery and reconstruction --
Recovery following disaster : policy issues and dimensions --
Policy issues in international context --
Decisionmaking under disaster conditions --
Diaster management in the Netherlands : planning for real events --
Science and the state in Latin America : decisionmaking in uncertainty --
Integrating emergency management --
Policy analysis as the study of implements : analytical tools in disaster management --
Ethical issues in emergency management policy --
Synthesis in disaster management : linking reason with action in learning systems
Series Title: Duke Press policy studies.
Responsibility: edited by Louise K. Comfort.
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