Managing Hurricane Katrina
The government's response to Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history, suffered numerous criticisms. Nearly every assessment pointed to failure, from evaluations of President George W. Bush, FEMA, and the Department of Homeland Security to the state of Louisiana and the city administration of New Orleans. In Managing Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from a Megacrisis, Arjen Boin, Christer Brown, and James A. Richardson deliver a more nuanced examination of the s...
Contingency Contracting in Support of Conus Disasters
by Naval Postgraduate School
Digital Services in Crisis, Disaster, and Emergency Situations
The contemporary world is characterized by the massive use of digital communication platforms and services that allow people to stay in touch with each other and their organizations. On the other hand, it is also a world with great challenges in terms of crisis, disaster, and emergency situations of various kinds. Thus, it is crucial to understand the role of digital platforms/services in the context of crisis, disaster, and emergency situations. Digital Services in Crisis, Disaster, and Emergen...
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (First Due Engine Company Video S., #6)
by J S Kidd and J. Czajkowski
The spine holding the book together is that America is a collection of tribes and nations - many of which have very little in common with each other. Hence it is very near impossible to make any general statements about America. But Buckman states that "each country gets the health service it deserves" meaning that you can get a good idea of The American Way by looking at how they look after their sick - and how they don't.
Improving emergency management by modeling ant colonies
by Naval Postgraduate School
United States Air Force Role in Mass Atrocity Response Operations
by United States Army Command and General S
Healthcare in China
Be Prepared Before You Have a Mine Accident. Let's hope you never face a mine disaster. But if you do, you need expert help at your fingertips, and you need it NOW! Keep this book close at hand, just in case. Buy extra copies for your key management and safety staff, and make sure they read it before you need it. Mine Rescue Manual, prepared and tested at the Colorado School of Mines, comes to the rescue with:Clear descriptionsBest-practice benchmarksStep-by-step listsProcedural diagrams. This...
Purchasing Health and Social Care for People with a Learning Disability (BILD Seminar Papers, #2)
Local Authority Performance Indicators
On March 11, 2011, fifty minutes after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit eastern Japan, a tsunami 45-feet high engulfed the nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daiichi, knocking out electrical power and all the reactors' safety systems. Three reactor cores experienced meltdowns in the first three days, leading to an unimaginable nuclear disaster. The person the Tokyo Electric Power Company called for help was Dr. Chuck Casto. In Station Blackout, Chuck Casto, the foremost authority on responding...
