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Book Civil Protection Systems and Disaster Governance

Download or read book Civil Protection Systems and Disaster Governance written by Stanisław Kowalkowski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Civil Security Governance

Download or read book European Civil Security Governance written by Raphael Bossong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European states and international organizations have established multiple policies and mechanisms to deal with various risks, crises and disasters. This edited volume examines the emerging multi-level policy space of European civil security governance, identifying patterns and reviewing the opportunities and obstacles for cooperation.

Book Governance of Risk  Hazards and Disasters

Download or read book Governance of Risk Hazards and Disasters written by Giuseppe Forino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing debates around governance are taking place among academic, policy-making, and practice-based communities. In light of the increasing focus on governance, this book presents and discusses governance as a framework that is able to both conceptualize and contextualize risks and disasters as currently experienced and managed into social systems. Contributions offer a variety of perspectives, experiences and socio-cultural contexts which have identified the challenges, opportunities and critiques of promoting governance. Part I explores approaches, models, and keywords as applied to risk and disaster governance theory. Part II investigates practices of risk governance and associated issues by focusing on disaster risk reduction policy and practice. Finally, Part III explores practices of disaster governance and associated issues, by focusing on disaster recovery experiences. This book highlights cutting-edge recent theoretical and empirical trends and is a valuable resource for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers interested in risk and disaster governance.

Book OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies  Italy 2010 Review of the Italian National Civil Protection System

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies Italy 2010 Review of the Italian National Civil Protection System written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This OECD review of risk management policies focuses on the Italian civil protection system and its means to prepare for and react to earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, landslides and even volcanoes.

Book Fundamental Elements of the Management of Crisis and Civil Emergencies from the Civil Protection Perspective

Download or read book Fundamental Elements of the Management of Crisis and Civil Emergencies from the Civil Protection Perspective written by and published by CENTRUL NAŢIONAL DE PREGĂTIRE IN MANAGEMENTUL MEDICAL AL DEZASTRELOR. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Managing Emergencies and Crises

Download or read book Managing Emergencies and Crises written by Naim Kapucu and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the scale, frequency, and intensity of crises faced by the world have dramatically increased over the last decade, there is a critical need for a careful evaluation of knowledge of managing disasters. Managing Emergencies and Crises presents the experience of emergency management from a continental perspective by focusing on the emergency response systems, processes, and actors in the context of the United States and Europe. It explores the institutional, socio-cultural and political aspects of crisis response and management. Your students will examine questions such as: What does the experience of disaster response from Japan, Pakistan, Greece and Turkey to the UK and US tell us about the state-civil society cooperation in such environments? How effective are the existing prevention and preparedness mechanisms to protect societies against disasters? What specific roles are attributed to state, federal, international and private sector participants at a rhetorical level and how those actors actually carry out their ‘responsibilities’ and work with each other in the event of a crisis?

Book Comprehensive Emergency Management

Download or read book Comprehensive Emergency Management written by National Governors' Association. Center for Policy Research and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide highlights the findings of the National Governors' Association (NGA) Emergency Preparedness Project study, recommends an approach to comprehensive state emergency management, and offers pertinent management advice and tools based on hard-won experience in a variety of states. Case histories based on actual experience, as told by governors, their aides, and state emergency office directors, appear as insets throughout the text. These case histories both illustrate and augment the surrounding text. The outcomes of cases describing comprehensive emergency management are hypothetical, as this practice is not yet implemented in most states. Intended for governors and their staff aides, this guide is concerned with emergency management. It is one of a series of five companion publications of the NGA Center for Policy Research.

Book Cities and Regions  Potential Role in Mediterranean Civil Protection

Download or read book Cities and Regions Potential Role in Mediterranean Civil Protection written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the study is to explore the role cities and regions could play in the national civil protection system. This will be done by clarifying the role of local and regional authorities (LRAs) and providing them with a roadmap to implement this role within their respective national systems. This study is linked to the intention of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean to "lay the foundations for an online platform, serving as repository of knowledge and a forum for dialogue, and a Mediterranean pool of experts who can provide advice." LRAs need the civil protection mechanism and the LRAs to work together to build resilience. The analytical framework of this study is based on the concept of resilience, which is aligned with civil protection, disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. The framework consists of three elements: key principles, activity scope, and activity type. The key principles are subsidiarity and shared responsibility. Subsidiarity is the principle that decisions should be made at the lowest possible level of governance. Shared responsibility is the principle that all stakeholders take action to manage the risk and respond to emergencies for their own activities and assets, and work in solidarity with their peers when needed. The activities cover before (risk management), during (disaster management) and after (recovery management) shocks and stresses. And the activity types refer to whether the intent is to improve decision mechanisms, knowledge products and information or operational capacity.

Book Disaster Policy Implementation

Download or read book Disaster Policy Implementation written by P.J. May and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal disaster policy is an important but overlooked aspect of federal action that has provided a rich arena for pursuing our more general research interests concerning federal program implementation and management. May brought to the research task both a familiarity with the broad issues of federal disaster policy-having recently completed a book (May, 1985) about disaster relief policy and politics-and an understanding of the day-to-day workings of emergency management at the federal level. Williams provided the "imple mentation perspective" that undergirds the book, having previously devel oped and applied the perspective in two books (Williams, 1980a, b) about social programs. The study focuses upon the intergovernmental implementation of selected emergency management programs, primarily as played out at the federal and state levels. Our fieldwork and resultant description of disaster policy implementation allow us: (I) to analyze the implementation of selected aspects of disaster policy and to discuss federal management choices in this area; (2) to gain a greater understanding of federal program implementation under "shared governance"-a term we develop more fully in the book in referring to programs under which the federal and subnational governments share responsibility for program funding and management; and (3) to con sider the relevance of the lessons of earlier social program implementation research to a very different policy setting. Many individuals assisted us with this research. Our greatest debt is to those federal and state officials who took time from their busy schedules to offer their implementation perspectives about emergency management.

Book Coping with Catastrophe

Download or read book Coping with Catastrophe written by Gary L. Wamsley and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive & objective study of governmental capacity to respond effectively to major natural disasters. Covers: evolution of the emergency management function; Federal responsibility & the President's role in emergency mgmt.; FEMA; the Federal responsibility & the role of Congress; state & local government organizational capability; & is the current approach viable? Extensive bibliography. Charts & tables.

Book OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies  Mexico 2013 Review of the Mexican National Civil Protection System

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies Mexico 2013 Review of the Mexican National Civil Protection System written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of Mexico's civil protection system looks at the coordination of central government, public and private industries, and state and local governments for the effective management of hurricanes, earthquakes and floods.

Book The Government of Emergency

Download or read book The Government of Emergency written by Stephen J. Collier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the middle decades of the twentieth century, in the wake of economic depression, war, and in the midst of the Cold War, an array of technical experts and government officials developed a substantial body of expertise to contain and manage the disruptions to American society caused by unprecedented threats. Today the tools invented by these mid-twentieth century administrative reformers are largely taken for granted, assimilated into the everyday workings of government. As Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff argue in this book, the American government's current practices of disaster management can be traced back to this era. Collier and Lakoff argue that an understanding of the history of this initial formation of the "emergency state" is essential to an appreciation of the distinctive ways that the U.S. government deals with crises and emergencies-or fails to deal with them-today. This book focuses on historical episodes in emergency or disaster planning and management. Some of these episodes are well-known and have often been studied, while others are little-remembered today. The significance of these planners and managers is not that they were responsible for momentous technical innovations or that all their schemes were realized successfully. Their true significance lies in the fact that they formulated a way of understanding and governing emergencies that has come to be taken for granted"--

Book OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies  Italy 2010 Review of the Italian National Civil Protection System

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies Italy 2010 Review of the Italian National Civil Protection System written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This OECD review of risk management policies focuses on the Italian civil protection system and its means to prepare for and react to earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, landslides and even volcanoes.

Book Emergency Management

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas E. Drabek
  • Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Emergency Management written by Thomas E. Drabek and published by International City/County Management Association(ICMA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State Comprehensive Emergency Management

Download or read book State Comprehensive Emergency Management written by National Governors' Association. Emergency Preparedness Project and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civil Defense in Japan

Download or read book Civil Defense in Japan written by Yasuhiro Takeda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Japan instituted a system to protect citizens against military attacks and terrorism for the first time after World War II. Faced with the Tokyo subway attack (1995), the 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001), and the changing security environment in East Asia, the Japanese government was forced to implement the most extensive reform of its domestic crisis management ["kiki-kanri"] system in the postwar era. Japan’s civil defense system is now called civil protection ["kokumin-hogo"]. Two world wars in the 20th century led to the development of national institutions based on civil defense in Western democratic countries (including the United States and Canada). As times have changed, most countries have adopted a comprehensive crisis (or emergency) management system, integrating civil defense and disaster management (against natural and technological hazards). However, Japan continues to take a different path. Why has a comprehensive crisis management system yet to be formed? How do complex and fragmented institutions work? This book examines the institutions and policies of civil protection (i.e., Japan's civil defense) and further analyzes their effectiveness and issues. Furthermore, it also examines the trade-offs resulting from the coexistence of two independent institutions: civil protection and natural disaster management. A valuable read for scholars of Japan’s public administration and security/ defense policy, as well as for those researching and comparing disaster-preparedness across countries.

Book Our Missing Shield

Download or read book Our Missing Shield written by Harry Beller Yoshpe and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: