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Table of Contents:

• The importance of multi- and interdisciplinary research on disasters and for emergency management
• Geography's contributions to understanding hazards and disasters
• Meteorology, weather and emergency management
• Engineering's contribution to the field of emergency management
• Sociology, disasters and emergency management
• Research about the mass media and disaster: never (well hardly ever) the twain shall meet
• Disasters: a psychological perspective
• Anthropological contributions to the study of disasters
• Social work and disasters
• U.S. disaster policy and management in an area of homeland security
• Public administration, emergency management, and disaster policy
• International relations and disasters: illustrating the relevance of the discipline to the study and profession of emergency management
• Comparative politics and disasters: assessing substantive and methodological contributions
• The contribution of management theory and practice to emergency management
• Gerontology and emergency management: discovering pertinent themes and functional elements within two disciplines
• Public health and medicine in emergency management
• Who's in charge here? Some observations on the relationship between disasters and the American criminal justice system
• Emergency management and law
• Environmental management and disasters: Contributions of the discipline to the profession and practice of emergency management
• Communication studies and emergency management: common ground, contributions, and future, research opportunities for two emerging disciplines

• Business crisis and continuity management
• Information disasters and disaster information: where information science meets emergency management
• Making sense of consilience: reviewing the findings and relationships among disciplines, disasters and emergency management.

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Contributors:

McEntire, David A.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Emergency management — Research

Disaster relief — Research

Crisis management

Emergency management

Disaster relief

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxv, 344 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

HV551.2 .D583 2007

ISBNs:

9780398077433 (hard)
0398077436 (hard)
9780398077440 (paper)
0398077444 (paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007005672

OCLC Numbers:

84838059