Introduction to International Disaster Management, Second Edition continues to serve as the sole comprehensive overview of global emergency management. This second edition contains updated information on disaster trends as well as on management structures and advancements around the world. Coppola includes changes that reflect the dual theme of the book: universal principles of global emergen…
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.
Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prev…
The Official Organizing of Chaos Creating Disasters Preparing for the Worst Are Disaster Agencies Effective? The Other Side-Victims Perspective The Power of Tradition The Odds of Being a Victim The Mother Hen Effect Alternative Organizational Forms Disaster Communities as Survival Mechanisms Privatizing Disaster Management