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Listen to Richard Sylves on his interview from “Homeland Security Inside & Out” Click Here to ListenRichard Sylves Interview Interview from ‘Homeland Security Inside and Out’ which airs on KAMU. Interview air date: May 20, 2008. In this groundbreaking book, long-time expert and scholar in the field of disaster management, Richard Sylves, comprehensively surveys the field of emergency management while building on his original research and sharing his insider knowledge. Providing much needed synthesis of the field's major findings, scholarship, and current developments, Sylves structures the book with an analytical framework that focuses on the challenge of effective intergovernmental relations—both across levels of government and across types of disasters—to guide readers through instructive and important political history as well as recent crises. Whether for an undergraduate studying the topic for the first time or a practitioner looking for professional development, Disaster Policy and Politics will prove to be a highly readable, informative text and handbook aimed at laying a foundation of knowledge and know-how. Ten chapters offer, among other topics: a contextual history of disaster policy and politics; a discussion of global issues and influences; an exploration of the politics of planning and funding for the next disaster; a look to the future, to where emergency management goes from here, including its maturation into a profession. A valuable learning resource available with the book is a website sponsored by the Public Entity Risk Institute that tracks presidential disaster declarations issued for every state and county from 1953 through 2006.
Civil-Military Relations and National Security
Civil-Military Relations and National Security
FOR DECADES, U.S. CIVIL DEFENSE AND HOMELAND SECURITY policy has been enmeshed in the nation's disaster policy. In the 1950s, civil defense against nuclear attack was the platform upon which modern emergency management evolved. In the mid-1990s, the policy of the federal government ensured that national security matters were integrated into FEMA's overall all-hazards approach to emergency management. Today, state and municipal governments carry a considerable portfolio of duties related to national security, many implemented through Department of Homeland Security grant programs. Such grant programs embedded with detailed conditions, requirements, and standards characterize what much of disaster policy and governmental disaster management is today in the United States.
Disaster management in the United States has almost ...
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