Introduction to International Disaster Management - Hardcover

Coppola, Damon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750679824 ISBN 13: 9780750679824

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006

Synopsis

Offers practitioners, educators and students with a comprehensive overview of the players, processes and special issues involved in the management of large-scale natural and technological disasters. This book discusses special issues encountered in the management of international disasters.

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Review:

"Damon Coppola's Introduction to international disaster management is a single volume sourcebook that makes excellent use of full colour graphics and has numerous inset boxes highlighting aspects of the topics under discussion. The book follows a logical progression starting with the history of disasters and ending with details of disaster management agencies (governments, NGOs, multilateral organisations), where they are located within national government structures, and what they do. The bulk of the book is given over to consideration of hazards, risks and vulnerability, and the four stages of traditional disaster management namely: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. A final chapter deals briefly with special considerations in relation to disasters covering such diverse topics as the media, political will, donor fatigue, state sovereignty, climate change, terrorism, and pandemics. This book is an excellent starting point for the study of disaster planning providing both global perspective and local detail."--Colin Perry, The Brunei Times

Review:

The first book to offer complete preparedness, response, and relief coverage of the complex issues surrounding international disasters!

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0750679824
• ISBN 13: 9780750679824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576