Emergency Management - Mitigation

Definitions, examples, case studies etc.

Natural Hazards,Tech/Industrial Hazards and Terrorism

Heritage Foundation. Defending the American Homeland New report (114 pp.) which discusses mitigation from terrorism options. Jan 2002.

Similarities and differences

Rubin, Claire B. Federal Disaster Response: Is the Past Prologue? TIEMS 2000 Proceedings.

Mitchell, Long Road to Recovery ****

General information

e.g., earthquake mitigation slide set by Petak

Enabling Legislation/Authorities

Legislation

EOs

PDDs

GAO reports....

History

See Platt and Godschalk books

Disaster Time Line

Connections with other Phases:

Response - national plans

Recovery; reconstruction, redevelopment

Preparedness

Present Practice

Emergency Management (public sector)

(1) Local government

(2) State/provincial government

(3) National government

(4) Other ...

Inter-organizational and inter-government aspects

Political/ Policy/ Public Administration Aspects

Mitigation: by unit of analysis

personal/family

neighborhood

community

local/regional

state

national

international: sand, smoke , ash from other countries.....

General resources

Articles

Government pubs

FEMA instructor Guides

Building Disaster Resistant and Sustainable Communities (draft IG)

Books

Mitchell, James et al. The Long Road to Recovery; Community Response to Industrial Disasters. Available as hard copy book or downloadable in full text from UN University Press.

Tierney et al. ****

Waugh, Wm. ****

ICMA ****

Godschalk, Natural Hazards Mitigation ....

Platt, Rutherford et al. Disasters and Democracy....

Private Sector/Business Mitigation

Other Sources

FEMA requirements for State and local governments

See handbook ****

FEMA Instructors Guides

(1) Principles and Practices of Hazard Mitigation

(2) Political and Policy Basis of Emergency Management

(3) Public Administration and Emergency Management

(4) Emergency Management Guide For Business and Industry

(5) Terrorism and Emergency Management

All are free and available as a download from FEMA's Higher Educ. site.

Archives: classic documents

Quarantelli and Dynes docs etc. at the Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the Univ. of DE.

Recommended Links

See business and contingency planning section of the GWU Websites List at: www.gwu.edu/gelman/guides/sciences/crisis.html

Other Sources

FEMA requirements for State and local governments

See handbook ****

 

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