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This book is intended as a history and survey of large-scale emergency management policy in the United States. The field of emergency management is relatively new, and rapidly changing as new technology and technology-dependent societal systems emerge. The impacts of past catastrophic events on policy development, and implications of older policy in new markets are discussed. The book also explores non-governmental policies as they relate to for-profit emergency management and professional associations of practitioners. For any person working in the field of emergency management who wonders ""why do we do things the way we do?"" this book is essential.

Disaster Policy and Its Practice in the United States: A Brief History and Analysis

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    A Paperback by Andrea M. Jackman, Mario G. Beruvides, Gary S. Nestler

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      Publisher Momentum Press
      Published 31 July 2017
      ISBN-13 9781606506998
      978-1606506998
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      Emergency services

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      Book Synopsis
      This book is intended as a history and survey of large-scale emergency management policy in the United States. The field of emergency management is relatively new, and rapidly changing as new technology and technology-dependent societal systems emerge. The impacts of past catastrophic events on policy development, and implications of older policy in new markets are discussed. The book also explores non-governmental policies as they relate to for-profit emergency management and professional associations of practitioners. For any person working in the field of emergency management who wonders ""why do we do things the way we do?"" this book is essential.

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