Communicable crises : prevention, response, and recovery in the global arena /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlotte, N.C. :
Information Age Pub.,
c2007
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| Series: | Research in public management
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Fred Thompson
- Preface / Deborah E. Gibbons
- Against desperate peril: high performance in emergency preparation and response / Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
- Anticipating rude surprises: reflections on "crisis management" without end / Todd R. La Porte
- Technological transformation of logistics in support of crisis management / Richard A. Braunbeck III and Michael F. Mastria
- Improving disaster management through structured flexibility among frontline responders / Claudia Seifert
- Asymmetric information processes in extreme events: the December 26, 2004 Sumatran earthquake and tsunami / Louise K. Comfort
- Emergent institutionalism: the United Kingdom's response to the BSE epidemic / Chris Ansell and Jane Gingrich
- Maximizing the impact of disaster response by nonprofit organizations and volunteers / Deborah E. Gibbons
- How governments can help businesses weather a cataclysmic disaster / Roxanne Zolin and Fredric Kropp
- Globalization and international communicable crises: a case study of SARs / Teri Jane Bryant, Ilan Vertinsky, and Carolyne Smart
- Constraints on the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks / Alasdair Roberts
- Support for crisis management in Asia-Pacific: lessons from ADB in the past decade / Clay Wescott
- Synthesizing perspectives on management of communicable crises / Deborah E. Gibbons
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