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Summary:

Emergency managers are faced with natural and human-made problems that are constantly evolving and changing the footprints of disaster. The complexity of these problems is more than matched by the complexity of the physical and social systems that emergency managers are expected to understand as they offer solutions for the recurring disaster problems that are presented to them in the normal course of their work. The technical skills and capacities that emergency managers have developed over time as they have plied their trade are impressive and increasingly effective and have never been more.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Emergency Management: Trade Or Profession
• Introduction
• Early Days of Emergency Management
• New Emergency Management
• New Emergency Manager
• Future of Emergency Management
• 2. Mitigation And Sustainability: It Takes A Village
• Introduction
• Sustainability and the Linkage to Mitigation
• Principles and Techniques
• Mitigation Decade
• Decade Adrift
• Future of Emergency Management
• 3. Emergency Management Ethics And Sustainability
• Introduction
• Emergency Management Ethics and Current Standards
• Ethics and Sustainability: The Critical Link
• Future of Emergency Management
• 4. Emergency Management, Sustainability, And Climate: Warming Up To The Challenge
• Introduction

• What We Know: A Natural Disaster Slowly Unfolding
• Emergency Management: A Perspective to Guide Practical Action and Policy
• Future of Emergency Management
• 5. Human-Made Hazards And Sustainability
• Introduction
• Creating Hazards
• Case One Deepwater Horizon Disaster
• Case Two Fracking Revolution
• Future of Emergency Management
• 6. Resilience And Sustainability By Design
• Basic Insight
• Disasters by Design
• Resilience and Sustainability by Design
• Emergency Management: A Sustainability Profession.

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Author/Creator:

Schneider, Robert O. , author

Contributors:

Ebooks Corporation

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Emergency management and sustainability: defining a profession [by Schneider, R.O.]

Other Related Resources:

Other format: Emergency management and sustainability [by Schneider, R.O.] (Springfield, Illinois : Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd., [2013] — ISBN 9780398087630; LCCN 2013022553)

Subjects:

Emergency management — United States

Emergency management

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2016).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV551.3 .S376 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780398087647
0398087644
9780398087630 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013024736

OCLC Numbers:

849641792

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1441662 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11209763