Including contributions from sixty international authors, this book examines emergency responses to environmental dangers such as chemical fires, hazardous material and oil spills, nuclear reactor accidents, and earthquakes, and crises in the environment, global public service, and politics. It covers a wide range of international issues and topics, using various analyses, including critical, descriptive, empirical, quantitative, and normative methods. The book discusses approaches to natural disasters, resolutions to cultural, religious, and political tensions, terrorism and the potential use of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, the role of crisis public relations, and more.
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Höhe: 248 mm
Breite: 174 mm
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978-0-8247-0422-3 (9780824704223)
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Herausgeber*in
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Crisis management: micro-macro issues - group and intergroup crisis management; macro issues - organizational crisis management; macro issues - political, economic and social crisis management. Emergency management - micro and macro issues:environmental and health emergency management; macro and micro issues on conceptual, policy, practical, and empirical aspects of emergency management. National and international case studies on crisis and emergency management: crisis and emergencymanagement in the North/Central/Latin Americas; crisis and emergency management in Europe (Western and Eastern) and Australia; crisis and emergency management in the Near/Middle East; terrorism and crisis/emergency; long-term strategic plans forprevention and preparedness of crisis and emergencies.
