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Books by Richard Sylves






Disaster Management in the U.S. and Canada(2nd Edition)
The Politics, Policymaking, Administration and Analysis of Emergency Management
by Richard T. Sylves, William L. Waugh, Richard Terry Sylves
Paperback, 422 Pages, Published 1997 by Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-398-06609-3, ISBN: 0-398-06609-4

"Emergency management has become a vital profession, better able to meet ever-increasing public demands, better able to advance post-disaster cost recovery and relief, and better able to put communities back together after a disaster. This book is designed and intended to help the reader, whether familiar or unfamiliar with the field, better understand the human impacts that emergencies have on us all. It examines laws, policies, regulat ..."






Cities and Disaster
North American Studies in Emergency Management
by Richard T. Sylves, William L. Waugh
278 Pages, Published 1990
ISBN-13: 978-0-398-06451-8, ISBN: 0-398-06451-2






Emergency Management(2nd Edition)
The American Experience 1900-2005
by David Butler, Melanie Gall, Claire B. Rubin, Susan L. Cutter, Keith Bea, Richard T. Sylves, John R. Harrald, Robert Ward, Gary Wamsley
Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2007 by Public Entity Risk Institute
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793722-0-9, ISBN: 0-9793722-0-8

"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 ..."






Disaster Policy and Politics
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard T. Sylves
632 Pages, Published 2019 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5063-6870-2, ISBN: 1-5063-6870-0

"Keith Smith, Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risks and Reducing Disasters, 6th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 146. 89. ... Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, “What is Disaster Resilience? ... Law 113-2, section 1110, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 29, 2013), https://www.congress.gov/113/plaws/publ2/PLAW-113publ2.pdf ( accessed July 15, 2018)."






Disaster Policy and Politics
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard T. Sylves
632 Pages, Published 2019 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5063-6871-9, ISBN: 1-5063-6871-9

"This edition employs only one type of boxed feature, and boxed sections appear in all chapters. ... Boxed material complements textual material. ... of federal emergency management with federal homeland security is combining to produce vast quantities of planning and preparedness documents. ... The field of disaster policy and politics is ever changing, yet like America itself, is a perfectible experiment."






The Nuclear Oracles
A Political History of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1977
by Richard T. Sylves
353 Pages, Published 1987
ISBN-13: 978-0-608-00116-6, ISBN: 0-608-00116-3






Disaster Management in the U.S. and Canada(2nd Edition)
The Politics, Policymaking, Administration and Analysis of Emergency Management
by Richard T. Sylves, William L. Waugh, Richard Terry Sylves
Hardcover, 393 Pages, Published 1996 by Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-398-06608-6, ISBN: 0-398-06608-6

"Emergency management has become a vital profession, better able to meet ever-increasing public demands, better able to advance post-disaster cost recovery and relief, and better able to put communities back together after a disaster. This book is designed and intended to help the reader, whether familiar or unfamiliar with the field, better understand the human impacts that emergencies have on us all. It examines laws, policies, regulat ..."






Cities and Disaster(1st Edition)
North American Studies in Emergency Management
by Richard T. Sylves, William L. Waugh
Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 1989 by Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-398-05635-3, ISBN: 0-398-05635-8






Disaster Policy and Politics; Emergency Management and Homeland Security(2nd Edition)
by Richard Sylves, Richard Terry Sylves, Gary Paul Green
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2014 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4833-0781-7, ISBN: 1-4833-0781-6

"Richard Sylves provides needed context and contemporary coverage of the disaster management and homeland security field. Paying special attention to the role of key actors—decision makers at the federal, state and local levels, scientists, engineers, civil and military personnel, officials and first responders—the author explores how social science research can be usefully applied to policy development and every day practice. The book’s ..."






Disaster Policy and Politics
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard Sylves
400 Pages, Published 2014 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4833-2413-5, ISBN: 1-4833-2413-3

"Perrow Charles. The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Petak William J. “Emergency Management: A Challenge to Public Administration,” Special issue. Public Administration Review 45 (January 1985). Petak William J., and Atkisson. Arthur A. Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Public Policy. New York: SpringerVerlag, 1982. Pete ..."






Disaster Policy and Politics
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard Sylves
400 Pages, Published 2014 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4833-5579-5, ISBN: 1-4833-5579-9

"Under the NRF, which replaced the NRP and went into effect in early 2008, the Incident of National Significance ... Now NSSEs are interlaced with presidential authority to issue disaster declarations and to declare major disasters and emergencies. ... 29 Rutherford H. Platt, “Shouldering the Burden: Federal Assumption of Disaster Costs,” in Disasters and Democracy: The Politics of Extreme Natural Events, ed. Rutherford H. Platt, 11 ..."






Disaster Policy and Politics
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard Sylves
400 Pages, Published 2014 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4833-1957-5, ISBN: 1-4833-1957-1

"See Damon P. Coppola, Introduction to International Disaster Management ( Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007), 309. ... New Orleans, Louisiana; Joint Task Force—Shreveport, Louisiana, Joint Task Force Camp Shelby—Hattiesburg , MS; Joint Task Force Forward—USS Iwo Jima; ... Louise K. Comfort, Arjin Boin, and Chris C. Demchak (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), 143– 157."






Disaster Policy and Politics
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard Sylves
312 Pages, Published 2008 by Sage
ISBN-13: 978-1-4833-0455-7, ISBN: 1-4833-0455-8

"Bullock, George D.Haddow, Damon Coppola, Erdem Ergin,Lissa Westerman, andSarp Yeletaysi, Introduction to Homeland Security (Boston: Elsevier, Butterworth Heinemann, 2005). 4. 9/11Commission Report: FinalReportof theNational Commissionon TerroristAttacks uponthe United States (New York: Norton, 2004). 5. RobertT.Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended, andRelated Authorities,“Title I—Findings, Declarations a ..."






Disaster Policy and Politics(3rd Edition)
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard Terry Sylves
Paperback, 632 Pages, Published 2019 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5063-6868-9, ISBN: 1-5063-6868-9

"In the Third Edition of Disaster Policy and Politics, author Richard Sylves provides much-needed contemporary coverage of the fields of disaster management and homeland security interspersed with mini-case studies of events such hurricanes Irma, Maria, and Harvey; Hawaii′s nuclear attack false warning; and responses to U.S. wildfires. Paying special attention to the role of key actors―decision makers at the federal, state, and local lev ..."






Disaster Policy and Politics(1st Edition)
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard Terry Sylves
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2008 by Cq Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87289-460-0, ISBN: 0-87289-460-6

"Listen to Richard Sylves on his interview from &BAD:quot;Homeland Security Inside &BAD:amp; Out&BAD:quot; Click Here to ListenRichard Sylves Interview Interview from 'Homeland Security Inside and Out' which airs on KAMU. Interview air date: May 20, 2008.In this groundbreaking book, long-time expert and scholar in the field of disaster management, Richard Sylves, comprehensively surveys the field of emergency management while building on ..."






The nuclear oracles(1st Edition)
A political history of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1977
by Richard Terry Sylves
319 Pages, Published 1987 by Iowa State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8138-0062-2, ISBN: 0-8138-0062-5

"Book by Sylves, Richard Terry"






Disaster Policy and Politics
Emergency Management and Homeland Security
by Richard Terry Sylves
285 Pages, Published 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4833-3076-1, ISBN: 1-4833-3076-1

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