Emergency Management
Emergency management is a field devoted to reducing local and national vulnerabilities and coping with local and national disasters.
This page lists databases, books, and websites specific to emergency management and is intended to be used in tandem with Homeland Security Essentials.
Links are followed by an "info" icon--hover over the icon to see how the resource is relevant to research in emergency management.
Image: A National Park worker surveys damage in southern Florida after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Responding to School Violence: Confronting the Columbine Effect
Why do so many school antiviolence programs backfire? And why do policymakers keep making the same mistakes? The authors of Responding to School Violence examine the pervasive rise of school security measures since the Columbine shootings, highlighting the unintended consequences of policymaking too often shaped by fear and sensationalism.
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by
An ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans and a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business, leaving residents to rebuild almost entirely on their own.
Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary approach to Concepts and Causes by
The theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur. Drawing on related disciplines, including sociology, risk theory, and seminal research on disasters and emergency management, Disaster Theory clearly lays out the conceptual framework of the emerging field of disaster studies.
