Download or read book Homeland Security and Emergency Management written by Ernest B. Abbott and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: A legal guide to homeland security and emergency management for state and local governments. c2005.
Download or read book A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments written by Ernest B. Abbott and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a number of windows into homeland security and emergency management law - covering both the basic structure of the homeland security and emergency management system and presenting detailed analysis of specific areas (such as applying for federal preparedness funds, negotiating intergovernmental agreements, applying for disaster assistance, and managing the impact of catastrophic events).
Download or read book Local level Homeland Security and Emergency Management written by Jesus Holguin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeland Security written by Roger L. Kemp and published by International City/County Management Association(ICMA). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely updated edition is packed with newer contributions and examples that reflect the changes, best practices, lessons learned, and future challenges in homeland security. An excellent overview of the different divisions that address aspects of homeland security, current practices that have been adopted and new policies that impact local governments. All new collection of articles recently published in leading publications in the public safety and emergency management field fields; and nearly all were written by highly-respected first-responders (as opposed to academics). Recent tragic events including school, workplace, and military episodes of violence, combined with significant public health fears surrounding the new flu epidemics are covered.
Download or read book The Role of Law Enforcement in Emergency Management and Homeland Security written by Mark R. Landahl and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role and involvement of law enforcement agencies across the spectrum of homeland security and emergency management. Contributions from expert practitioners and academics are organized around the mission areas of mitigation/protection, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
Download or read book Emergency Planning and Preparedness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State and local fusion centers and the role of DHS written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Introduction to Homeland Security written by Jane Bullock and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive account of past and current homeland security reorganization and practices, policies and programs in relation to government restructuring.
Download or read book Homeland Security Law and Policy written by William C. Nicholson and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is dedicated with appreciation to the warriors who defend us on foreign soil and the emergency responders and emergency managers who daily confront homeland security's challenges"--P. [v].
Download or read book Under Construction written by Kerry B. Fosher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, security became the paramount concern of virtually everyone involved in governing the United States. While the public’s most enduring memories of that time involved the actions of the Bush administration or Congress, the day-to-day reality of homeland security was worked out at the local level. Kerry B. Fosher, having begun an anthropological study of counterterrorism in Boston a few months prior to the attacks, thus found herself in a unique position to observe the formation of an immensely important area of government practice. Under Construction goes behind the headlines and beyond official policy to describe the human activities, emotions, relationships, and decisions that shaped the way most Americans experienced homeland security. Fosher’s two years of fieldwork focused on how responders and planners actually worked, illuminating the unofficial strategies that allowed them to resolve conflicts and get things done in the absence of a functioning bureaucracy. Given her unprecedented access, Fosher’s account is an exceptional opportunity to see how seemingly monolithic institutions are constructed, maintained, and potentially transformed by a community of people.
Download or read book Exploring Legislative Change Through the Lens of Homeland Security and Emergency Management written by Gary W. Holland and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Congress passed the Homeland Security Act of 2002, but after the federal, state, and local governmental response to Hurricane Katrina highlighted the ineffectiveness of the legislation, Congress passed the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006. The problem that was addressed through this study was the lack of a feedback loop in homeland security and emergency management legislation makes it virtually impossible to determine if the legislation actually accomplished what the legislators intended, and without an evaluation capability, legislative change can be irrelevant. In this study, legislative change theory was used to explain the requisite steps for successful legislation. Accordingly, this qualitative, multiple case study research became a foundational examination of legislative change theory through the lens of homeland security and emergency management. A convenience sample of 16 homeland security and emergency management experts represented state, parish, and local homeland security and emergency management experts with expertise in working to implement federal and state homeland security and emergency management policies. Interview questions aligned with the specific research questions that focused on homeland security collaboration, funding, law enforcement, and fusion center effectiveness examined the challenges faced by the state, parish, and local homeland security and emergency management agencies. The data were coded and synthesized for reportable themes that enabled grouping, coding, and in-depth analysis of the needs of the lower level homeland security and emergency management agencies. Three overarching themes uncovered were homeland security and emergency management: (a) involved all hazards, regardless of origin, (b) must include federal, state, and local governments, as well as the private sector, and (c) a universal, codified definition did not exist. Three recommendations emerging from this study included the need for (a) a common definition for homeland security, (b) give decision-making authority to the command and control element (c) amend federal personnel regulations to require a joint certification for senior promotion eligibility. Recommended future research includes (a) validity of assessment criteria as a means to determine legislation effectiveness, (b) reimbursement definitions used by FEMA, (c) have the mission determine the policy, and (d) updating existing Stafford Act.
Download or read book Homeland Security Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials written by Roger L. Kemp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook collects essays documenting numerous best practices in homeland security from throughout the United States since the attacks of September 11, 2001. The essays describe case studies from the municipal level to the federal government. Also covered are the history and future of homeland security"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Next Generation Homeland Security written by John Morton and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of an international political and economic system dependent on robust and continued U.S. engagement. Outdated hierarchical, industrial structures and processes configured in 1947 for the Cold War no longer provide for the security and resilience of the homeland. Security governance in this post-industrial, digital age of complex interdependencies must transform to anticipate and if necessary manage a range of cascading catastrophic effects, whether wrought by asymmetric adversaries or technological or natural disasters. Security structures and processes that perpetuate a 20th century, top-down, federal-centric governance model offer Americans no more than a single point-of-failure. The strategic environment has changed; the system has not. Changes in policy alone will not bring resolution. U.S. security governance today requires a means to begin the structural and process transformation into what this book calls Network Federalism. Charting the origins and development of borders-out security governance into and through the American Century, the book establishes how an expanding techno-industrial base enabled American hegemony. Turning to the homeland, it introduces a borders-in narrative—the convergence of the functional disciplines of emergency management, civil defense, resource mobilization and counterterrorism into what is now called homeland security. For both policymakers and students a seminal work in the yet-to-be-established homeland security canon, this book records the political dynamics behind the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing development of what is now called the Homeland Security Enterprise. The work makes the case that national security governance has heretofore been one-dimensional, involving horizontal interagency structures and processes at the Federal level. Yet homeland security in this federal republic has a second dimension that is vertical, intergovernmental, involving sovereign states and local governments whose personnel are not in the President’s chain of command. In the strategic environment of the post-industrial 21st century, states thus have a co-equal role in strategy and policy development, resourcing and operational execution to perform security and resilience missions. This book argues that only a Network Federal governance will provide unity of effort to mature the Homeland Security Enterprise. The places to start implementing network federal mechanisms are in the ten FEMA regions. To that end, it recommends establishment of Regional Preparedness Staffs, composed of Federal, state and local personnel serving as co-equals on Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) rotational assignments. These IPAs would form the basis of an intergovernmental and interdisciplinary homeland security professional cadre to build a collaborative national preparedness culture. As facilitators of regional unity of effort with regard to prioritization of risk, planning, resourcing and operational execution, these Regional Preparedness Staffs would provide the Nation with decentralized network nodes enabling security and resilience in this 21st century post-industrial strategic environment.
Download or read book Homeland Security Preparedness and Information Systems Strategies for Managing Public Policy written by Reddick, Christopher G. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the impact of Homeland Security Information Systems (HSIS) on government, discussing technologies used in a national effort to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks and emergencies such as natural disasters"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Principles of Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Centers EOC written by Michael J. Fagel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency operations centers (EOCs) are a key component of coordination efforts during incident planning as well as reaction to natural and human-made events. Managers and their staff coordinate incoming information from the field, and the public, to support pre-planned events and field operations as they occur. This book looks at the function and role of EOCs and their organizations. The highly anticipated second edition of Principles of Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) provides an updated understanding of the coordination, operation of EOCs at local, regional, state, and federal operations. Contributions from leading experts provide contemporary knowledge and best practice learned through lived experience. The chapters collectively act as a vital training guide, at both a theoretical and practical level, providing detailed guidance on handling each phase and type of emergency. Readers will emerge with a blueprint of how to create effective training and exercise programs, and thereby develop the skills required for successful emergency management. Along with thoroughly updated and expanded chapters from the first edition, this second edition contains new chapters on: The past and future of emergency management, detailing the evolution of emergency management at the federal level, and potential future paths. Communicating with the public and media, including establishing relations with, and navigating, the media, and the benefits this can provide if successfully managed. In-crisis communications. Leadership and decision-making during disaster events. Facilitating and managing interagency collaboration, including analysis of joint communications, and effective resource management and deployment when working with multiple agencies. Developing and deploying key skills of management, communication, mental resilience. Planning for terrorism and responding to complex coordinated terrorist attacks. Developing exercises and after-action reports (AARs) for emergency management.
Download or read book Foundations of Homeland Security and Emergency Management written by Martin J. Alperen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete guide to understanding homeland security law, with an extensive index and with exhaustive references and related links throughout The newly revised and updated Third Edition of Foundations of Homeland Security and Emergency Management enables readers to develop a conceptual understanding of the legal foundations of homeland security and emergency management (HSEM) by presenting the primary source law and policy documents we have established to address "all hazards," both terrorism and natural disasters. The book demonstrates that HSEM involves many specialties and that it must be viewed expansively and in the long-term. The Third Edition has more sources than previous editions and is streamlined with fewer long quotations. It highlights only those portions of the various documents and statutes necessary to provide the reader an understanding of what the law is designed to accomplish. Foundations of Homeland Security and Emergency Management includes information on: WMD, now expanded to include Pandemic Laws Political extremism, domestic threats, Posse Comitatus Act, and Insurrection Act Space Law, comparative Drone Law with Japan, HSEM in Puerto Rico Homeland Security Legal Architecture before 9/11 Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Homeland Security Critical Infrastructure Protection, Resiliency, and Culture of Preparedness With its accessible format, plethora of primary source documentation, and comprehensive coverage of the subject, this book is an essential resource for professionals and advanced students in law enforcement, national and homeland security, emergency management, intelligence, and critical infrastructure protection.
Download or read book Comprehensive Emergency Management for Local Governments written by James A. Gordon and published by Rothstein Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "how to" guide shows small to mid-sized local governments, whether in urban or regional settings, how to develop comprehensive emergency management plans with minimal expenditure of resources. Its modular, step-by-step approach also makes it an effective guide for non-experts and those interested in self-study. The book covers both preparedness planning and actual emergency management and includes these helpful features: Uses a modular approach to developing written plans, starting with the Preparedness Plan at the federal, provincial/state levels. At its core is the Emergency Management Plan, which is essentially the establishment and operation of the Emergency Operations Center that is central to any emergency. Instructions also cover other common plans: 1) Emergency Social Services 2) Emergency Public Information 3) Emergency Telecommunications 4) Evacuation 5) Hazard-Specific 6) Mutual Aid Agreements Takes novice emergency planners step-by-step through the four complete processes of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery for natural and human-made disasters. Gives tips for a staff training matrix and for developing a timetable of graduated exercises to test the written plan. Includes checklists, summaries, plan outlines, glossary, appendices that list online resources, and suggestions for career and professional development.
