
- 560 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Wiley Pathways Emergency Planning
About this book
Emergency Planning introduces students to the process and practice of emergency planning. The goal is to create broad experience that includes the many elements of planning as the primary path to community emergency preparedness. Students learn the relationship of emergency planning to generic field of emergency management. Specific attention is given to the contexts for planning, including local, state and federal government. Students learn the roles of the nonprofit sector, the critical links to citizens and the role of business. Emergency planning presents a science-based and practice-based vision of the planning process and the structure and content of emergency plans. Students are exposed to principles of social psychology, communication theory and approaches to public education.The book provides firm grounding in the design and implementation of principle protective mechanisms, including evacuation, in-place protection and expedient breathing protection. Students also learn the bases of incident management systems and emergency operations centers. Emergency planning is presented as an emerging and growing profession.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- 1: Introduction to Emergency Planning
- 2: The Emergency Planning Process
- 3: Patterned Human Behavior in Disasters
- 4: Fostering Successful Emergency Planning
- 5: Classes of Protective Action Recommendations
- 6: Analyzing and Selecting Protective Actions
- 7: The Content and Format of Emergency Plans
- 8: Continuity of Operations Plans
- 9: Milestones That Structure Emergency Planning
- 10: Population Warning
- 11: Planning for Hazard Adjustment
- 12: Structures for Managing Emergency Response
- 13: Selected Federal Emergency Planning Mandates
- 14: Emergency Planning, Professionalism and the Future
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index