Global Cases in Best and Worst Practice in Crisis and Emergency
Management is the first book to focus on select global cases from
the perspective of best and worst practices in the context of
crisis and emergency management. Bringing together the most
established scholars and experts in the field, it offers theories
along with an empirical, success-and-failure analysis. It presents
the cases using a "lessons learned" approach, highlighting the
good, the bad, and the ugly for the benefit of future crisis and
emergency management. The book is divided into three sections with
chapters that focus on Macro-level emergency policy cases
addressing policy design and decisions with long- and short-term
impact Cases giving instructive examples of prevention, leadership,
coordination, mitigation, organization, planning, and supplies
Cases and discussions of chaos and transformation theories,
surprise management theory, and applying theories to building
capacity and resilience in governance The book also includes
chapter objectives, analysis points, questions, key terms,
presentation and lesson exercises, references, and additional
reading lists. Policy experts, researchers, practitioners,
instructors, and students will find the case studies in this book
illuminating. With its combination of theory and practice and
coverage of a wide range of disciplines, it provides an ideal
primary or companion text for courses in emergency and disaster
management, public administration, political science, and global
crisis studies.
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