"The spate of disaster events ranging from major to catastrophic that have occurred in recent years raises a lot of questions about where and why they happened. Understanding the history of emergency management policies and practice is important to an understanding of current and future policies and practice. Continuing in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, the new edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience provide ..."
"U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the current public sector emergency management systems sufficient to handle future disasters given the environmental and social changes underway? In this timely book, Claire B. Rubin and Susan L. Cutter focus on disaster recovery efforts, community resilience, and public policy issues of related to recent ..."
Emergency Management(3rd Edition) The American Experience 1900-2010, Third Edition by ClaireB. Rubin Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-35405-0, ISBN: 1-138-35405-8
"In autumn 2005, three massive hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma struck the U.S. with catastrophic results. Hurricane Katrina, in particular, stood out as one of the worst disasters of the past 100 years. The emergency response to Katrina was so inadequate and problematic that the U.S. was humiliated both at home and abroad. These events prompted perhaps the deepest and most sustained examination of public emergency management (EM) fun ..."
"U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe explores a critical issue in American public policy: Are the current public sector emergency management systems sufficient to handle future disasters given the environmental and social changes underway? In this timely book, Claire B. Rubin and Susan L. Cutter focus on disaster recovery efforts, community resilience, and public policy issues of related to recent ..."
Emergency Management(2nd Edition) The American Experience 1900-2010, Second Edition by ClaireB. Rubin Hardcover, 314 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4665-1753-0, ISBN: 1-4665-1753-0
"Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010 provides the background needed to understand the key political and policy underpinnings of emergency management, exploring how major "focusing events" have shaped the development of emergency management. It builds on the original theoretical framework and chronological ..."
"In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of "major disasters" has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters or is it making matters worse? Does it remove incentives for individuals and local communities to take measures to protect themselves? A ..."
Emergency Management(2nd Edition) The American Experience 1900-2010, Second Edition by ClaireB. Rubin Hardcover, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-42265-0, ISBN: 1-138-42265-7
"Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010 provides the background needed to understand the key political and policy underpinnings of emergency management, exploring how major "focusing events" have shaped the development of emergency management. It builds on the original theoretical framework and chronological approach, but improves on the first e ..."
Community Recovery from a Major Disaster (Program on Environment and Behavior Monograph Series) by ClaireB. Rubin Paperback, Published 1985 by Univ Of Colorado Natural Hazards ISBN-13: 978-0-685-28115-4, ISBN: 0-685-28115-9
Emergency Management The American Experience by ClaireB. Rubin 296 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-429-75684-9, ISBN: 0-429-75684-4
"Melanie. Gall. and. Susan. L. Cutter. The year 2005 was a record year for the
socioeconomic impact of disasters in the United States. This chapter revisits the
catastrophes that occurred during 2015 (Hurricane Dennis, Hurricane Katrina, ..."
"... Katie Honan and James Fanelli, “City Forced Us from Our Homes for Sandy
Fixes Months Ago, Residents Say,” DNAinfo.com, May 10, 2016, ... Nicholas Rizzi
, “Build it Back Was a 'Categorical Failure,' Its Creator Says,” DNAinfo. com, July
12, 2016, ... Ben Kochman, “City Pols Slam NYCHA for Delays in Hurricane
Sandy Building Repairs,” New York Daily News, February ... Bill de Blasio, “My
New Plan to Climate-Proof Lower Manhattan,” ..."
"The year 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Journal of Developmental Psychology, providing an occasion to celebrate the journal's heritage and its long history of scholarly contributions to its field. This volume celebrates this milestone by bringing together twenty-three distinguished essays that showcase past accomplishments, current progress, and future challenges in the human developmental scienc ..."