Disaster Policy and Politics : Emergency Management and Homeland Security /: Emergency Management and Homeland Security. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Sylves.
• Authors: Sylves, Richard Terry
• Contents: 1. Disaster Management in the United States; Emergency Management as a Profession; Disasters as a Field of Scientific Research; Presidential Disaster Declarations; Fundamental Challenges of Emergency Management; Phases of Emergency Management; 2. Disaster Management and Theories of Public Management; Normative Political Theories; The Role of Theory in Emergency Management; Toward a Theory of Diaster Recovery; Knowledge Codification and Knowledge Diffusion Issues; 3. Historical Trends in Disaster Management; The Cold War and the Rise of Civil Defense; Nationwide Emergency Management; The Birth of FEMA; Disaster Declarations Issues; Civil Defense Again, and Changes in FEMA; All-Hazards Management; Terrorism Remakes Disaster Management; Homeland Security Presidential Directive; 4. Understanding Disaster Policy Through Presidential Disaster Declarations; The President's Constitutional Emergency Powers; Federal Disaster Relief Legislation and Declaration Authority; Presidential Discretionary Power; Facilitating the President's Work; FEMA's Role in the Declaration Process; Presidents and Distributive Politics; 5. The Role of Scientists and Engineers; Researching Hazards and Disasters; Disaster Researchers Compete for Government Funding; Social Sciences and Emergency Management; The Science Informing the Policy and Politics of Disasters; Case Studies of Science and Engineering Applied to Disaster; Engineering and Public Infrastructure Policy; 6. Intergovernmental Relations in Disaster Policy; Intergovermental Program Management; The National Response Plan and the National Incident Management System; Intergovernmental Disaster Management Challenges; Government Conractors and Disaster Management; 7. Civil-Military Relations and National Security; Presidents, the U.S. Military, and Posse Comitatus; Militarization of Disaster Policy; Homeland Security Terrorism Programs; Homeland Security Grants and Their Effects at the Local Level; 8. Globalization of Disasters; The U.S. Response System for Territories and Foreign States; Emergency Managementin Other Nations; The United Nations and International Disaster Relief; U.S. Domestic Relief versus the U.S. International Relief System; 9. Recovery Assistance: 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund versus Conventional Relief; The Conventional Model of Disaster Relief; The 9/11 Victim's Compensation Fund; Compensating Victims of Terrorism before 9/11; Was the Master Model Successful in the 9/11 Case?; The Master Model an the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Summary of the Models; Pros and Cons of the Master and Master Model; 10. Conclusions and the Future; Special Issues; The Big Questions;
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : Sage/CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 363.345610973; Emergency management -- United States; Intergovernmental cooperation -- United States; Emergency management; Intergovernmental cooperation; United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483324135; 1483324133
• Related ISBNs: 9781483307817
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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