Introduction to emergency management /
Michael K. Lindell, Carla S. Prater and Ronald W. Perry.
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2007.
- xxxii, 584 p. : ill., photos, charts, graphs.
Bibliography : p. 497-546.
Introduction to emergency management -- Emergency management stakeholders -- Building an effective emergency management organization -- Risk perception and communication -- Principal hazards in the United States -- Hazard, vulnerability, and risk analysis -- Hazard mitigation -- Myths and realities of disaster response -- Preparedness for emergency response -- Organizational emergency response -- Disaster recovery -- Evaluation -- International emergency management -- Professional accountability -- Future directions in emergency management.
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Emergency management. Emergency management--United States.