The future of disaster management in the U.S. : rethinking legislation, policy, and finance
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The future of disaster management in the U.S. : rethinking legislation, policy, and finance
(American Society for Public Administration series in public administration and public policy)
Routledge, 2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
U.S. congressional debates over the last few years have highlighted a paradox: although research demonstrates that emergencies are most effectively managed at the local level, fiscal support and programmatic management in response to disasters has shifted to the federal level. While the growing complexity of catastrophes may overwhelm local capacities and would seem to necessitate more federal engagement, can a federal approach be sustainable, and can it contribute to local capacity-building?
This timely book examines local capacity-building as well as the current legal, policy and fiscal framework for disaster management, questioning some of the fundamentals of the current system, exploring whether accountability and responsibilities are correctly placed, offering alternative models, and taking stock of the current practices that reflect an effective use of resources in a complex emergency management system. The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S. will be of interest to disaster and emergency managers as well as public servants and policy-makers at all levels tasked with responding to increasingly complex catastrophes of all kinds.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
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About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 The Centralization of Emergency Management
AMY LEPORE
SECTION I Legislation
2 Intents and Outcomes for Local Businesses in Post-Disaster Contracting under the Stafford Act
CHRISTOPHER L. ATKINSON
3 Revising Federal Disaster Management Policy: Establishing an Officer in Charge
MARC LANDY AND JESSICA GOLEY
4 Assisting Individuals with Access and Functional Needs: The Intersection of Disabilities, Planning and Disaster Policy
MELISSA PINKE, STACEY MANN, AND ELIZABETH TODAK
SECTION II Policy
5 Local Recovery: How Robust Community Rebound Necessarily Comes from the Bottom Up
EMILY CHAMLEE-WRIGHT, STEFANIE HAEFFELE-BALCH, AND VIRGIL HENRY STORR
6 Small Businesses as a Vulnerable Population
MARK R. LANDAHL AND TONYA T. NEAVES
7 Managing Human Capital in Times of Crisis: The Role of Employees in Disaster Management
STACEY C. MANN AND JONATHAN W. GADDY
SECTION III Finance
8 Major Disasters and Private Financing
PETE VLOEDMAN
9 Financial Resiliency by Local Governments to Natural Disasters
ROBERT BLAND, JESSECA E. SHORT, AND SIMON A. ANDREW
10 The Effects of Natural Disasters on Local-Government Finance
ORKHAN ISMAYILOV AND SIMON A. ANDREW
Index
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