Disaster Policy and Politics

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4833-0781-7
Verlag: CQ Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Richard Sylves provides needed context and contemporary coverage of the disaster management and homeland security field. Paying special attention to the role of key actors—decision makers at the federal, state and local levels, scientists, engineers, civil and military personnel, officials and first responders—the author explores how social science research can be usefully applied to policy development and every day practice. The book’s “all-hazards” comprehensive approach introduces students to the importance of public policy analysis, organizational management, and leadership issues they will need a command of as future practitioners and leaders in the field.

New to the Edition:

A new chapter on 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund sheds light on contemporary recovery assistance: are the new protocols for recovery effective? What lessons can be learned from recent disaster relief assistance efforts?

New coverage of public management theory, complexity and network theories, and emerging approaches to disaster recovery.

A look at how policy and practice at all levels are adapting to emerging threats like cyber terrorism and the increased capacity of civil authorities to respond.

Updates tie recent international and domestic events to approaches to disaster management, from the Fukushima nuclear disaster to the Boston Marathon bombings to the tornadoes that destroyed Moore, OK.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sylves, Richard T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sylves, Richard T.
Richard Sylves is professor of political science at the University of Delaware. He has served on a National Academy of Science, National Research Council panel, and he has done funded and unfunded research for FEMA. He served three years as an appointed member of the National Academy of Science Disaster Roundtable. His books include The Nuclear Oracles; Disaster Management in the United States and Canada: Politics, Policy, Administration, Study and Instruction of Emergency Management; Cities and Disaster: North American Studies in Emergency Management (with William Waugh); and Homeland Security and Emergency Management: A Public Budgeting Perspective.