Case studies in disaster response /

Case Studies in Disaster Response, the latest release in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series, focuses on the key functions performed in the emergency response to a disaster, how these functions are coordinated, and typical challenges and issues tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Feldmann-Jensen, Shirley (Editor), Jensen, S. J. (Steven John), 1959- (Editor), Slick, Jean (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom ; Cambridge, MA, United States : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2024]
Series:Disaster and emergency management : case studies in adaptation and innovation series
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The All-Hazards concept
  • For such a time as this
  • Social routine as a theoretical framework for measuring community process from disaster impact to restabilization
  • Business continuity innovation and adaptation during Superstorm Sandy
  • Disaster response of short-term emergent citizen volunteer groups
  • The first pandemic of the 21st century
  • Hotel resilience put to the test
  • The organization of response to oil and gas spill events in the United States
  • A case of flood response in Sri Lanka
  • 2017 Charlottesville protest events
  • Beyond social media push strategies
  • Social media use by multiple stakeholders and rightsholders during the Fort McMurray wildfires
  • On the growing importance of routine cybersecurity.