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Ellis, John W., 1947-
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353.30973 23
Publication Date
2014
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The mission, authority, organization, role, function, and the fundamental terminology that affects homeland security in the United States is examined in this book. Homeland security demands quick, effective organization to operate in emergencies, but simultaneously defies it by the limited time frame and sheer scope of the problem. The author focuses on the five core missions of homeland security: preventing terrorism, securing borders, enforcing immigration law, safeguarding cyber systems, and ensuring resilience to disasters. These core missions require five common skill areas for homeland s.
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Gustin, Joseph F., 1947-
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658.477 23
Publication Date
2013
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Schneider, Robert O.
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363.34802373 23
Publication Date
2013
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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.
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Abou-bakr, Ami J.
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363.3480973 23
Publication Date
2013
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"The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disaster management circles about the importance of increasing national resilience to rebound from catastrophic events. Since the majority of physical and virtual networks that the United States relies upon are owned and operated by the private sector, a consensus has emerged that public-private partnerships (PPPs) are a crucial aspect of an effective resilience strategy. Significant barriers to cooperation persist, however, despite acknowledgment that public-private collaboration for managing disasters would be mutually beneficial. Managing Disasters through Public-Private Partnerships constitutes the first in-depth exploration of PPPs as tools of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and resilience in the United States. The author assesses the viability of PPPs at the federal level and explains why attempts to develop these partnerships have largely fallen short. The book assesses the recent history and current state of PPPs in the United States, with particular emphasis on the lessons of 9/11 and Katrina, and discusses two of the most significant PPPs in US history, the Federal Reserve System and the War Industries Board from World War I. The author develops two original frameworks to compare different kinds of PPPs and analyzes the critical factors that make them successes or failures, pointing toward ways to improve collaboration in the future."--Publisher's website.
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Doherty, George W. (George William)
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616.89 23
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2011
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Barkun, Michael.
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363.325160973 22
Publication Date
2011
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This title explores the gap between the reality of terrorism and the imagined threat of terrorism. Linking this gap between reality and paranoia to the Bush administration's 'overreaction' to terrorist threats, the author focuses on the issue of unseen dangers.
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Gustin, Joseph F., 1947-
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658.477 22
Publication Date
2010
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Kunreuther, Howard.
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368.12200973 22
Publication Date
2009
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In this work, the authors deliver an analysis of how the US currently mitigates, insures against, and finances recovery from natural disasters.
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Beatley, Timothy, 1957-
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333.917160973 22
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2009
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Van Brunschot, Erin Gibbs.
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363.10973 22
Publication Date
2008
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Van Brunschot and Kennedy capture the interdisciplinary realities facing public security today, and the means in which a risk balance is evident in the secruity decisions made to deal with crime, terrorist activities and environmental disasters.
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Haddow, George D.
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363.3480973 22
Publication Date
2008
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Gustin, Joseph F., 1947-
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658.477 22
Publication Date
2007
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