As interest in planning for emergencies and disasters burgeons, and educational
and training programs proliferate, Principles of emergency planning and
management is the first book to meet the need for a concise yet comprehensive
and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. Providing readers
with a comprehensive, systematic, yet concise introduction to effective
preparation for disasters, it offers a unified starting point encompassing
the scattered and parochial literature in this nascent field of academic
enquiry and practical endeavour.
The book provides a general introduction to the methods, procedures, protocols and strategies of emergency planning, with emphasis on situations in industrialized countries and the local level of organization (i.e. cities, municipalities, metropolitan areas and small regions), though with ample reference to national and international levels. Rather than concentrating on the practices of any one country or state, the author focuses on general principles. Principles of emergency planning and management is designed to be a reference source and manual from which emergency managers can extract ideas, suggestions and pro-forma methodologies to help them design and implement emergency plans. A comprehensive all-hazards approach is adopted, with frequent reference to the most important individual hazards and the planning and management needs that they create. Twelve examples of actual emergency planning and management problems are analyzed in detail.
The book takes the reader step by step through the process of conceiving, writing, implementing, testing, revising and using a general emergency plan, beginning with a structure and rationale for emergency preparedness. Next, it systematically reviews the tools and methods available to the planner and then describes the structure and content of plans with special reference to the needs generated by each phase of the emergency. Later chapters describe how plans are put into practice and how disasters are managed. Particular attention is given to methods of planning for specific requirements, such as the protection of cultural heritage, the evacuation of schools, emergency veterinary work, and collaboration with representatives of the mass media. The last part of the book deals with planning and managing the post-disaster recovery and reconstruction phases, and with training emergency co-ordinators. There is a full complement of illustrations, bibliography and glossary.
Principles of emergency planning and management is written especially for the new generation of emergency planners and managers that is emerging as a result of intensified governmental interest in disaster preparedness. Many of them will occupy positions in government or other organizations that require emergency plans. The book will also be of value to students of disasters and hazards who have a practical interest in how disasters are planned for and managed, and to professional workers and trainees who will eventually have to participate in disaster plans. Principles of emergency planning and management is designed to be easily integrated with training courses in emergency preparedness.
Preface, Acknowledgements
Introduction; Long-term planning; Planning for the short term
Introduction; The emergency planner’s choice of methodology; Cartographic methods
Modelling; Risk analysis; Loss estimation; Resource analysis and inventory; General and organizational systems analysis; Field exercises; Use of information technology
The process of planning; Disseminating the plan; Testing and revising the plan; The integration of plans in theory and practice
Management styles; Alert procedures, warnings and evacuation; Search and rescue; Communications; Transportation; Engineering; Shelter; Emergency food programmes; The care of vulnerable and secure groups
Emergency medical planning; Veterinary plans; Emergency planning and schools; Terrorism and crowd emergencies; Emergency planning for industries; Emergency planning for tourism; Planning for libraries and archives; Protecting fine art and architecture; A plan for the mass media; Psychiatric help; A note on the integration of plans
Temporary measures; Restoration of services; Reconstruction of damaged structures; Development and mitigation
The cause-and-effect model; The concept-based approach; Scenario-based methods; Trends in disaster education and training
Glossary, Bibliography, Index
234×156mm 352pp. 56 line drawings
ISBN: 1-903544-10-6 PB £24.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-903544-10-5
Published in 2002
A Terra original publication
Available in North America from Oxford University Press
Subject: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena
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