Emergency management: a challenge for public administration.

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Includes bibliographical references

Special issue of Public administration review: January 1985, Vol.45

FEMA: its mission, its partners / Louis O. Giuffrida -- Emergency management : a challenge for public administration / William J. Petak -- Societal response to hazards and major hazard events : comparing natural and technological hazards / Roger E. Kasperson and K. David Pijawka -- The evolution and structure of natural hazard policies / Bruce B. Clary -- The relationship of emergency management to government policies on man-made technological disasters / Rae Zimmerman -- FEMA's role in emergency management : recent experience / Peter J. May -- Emergency management and the intergovernmental system / Alvin H. Mushkatel and Louis F. Weschler -- Disaster recovery and hazard mitigation : bridging the intergovernmental gap / Claire B. Rubin and Daniel G. Barbee -- Mitigation strategies and integrated emergency management / David R. Gosdchalk and David J. Brower -- Emergency management strategies for communicating hazard information / Ronald W. Perry and Joanne M. Nigg -- Emergency medical preparedness and response in disasters : the need for interorganizational coordination / Kathleen J. Tierney -- Managing the emergency response / Thomas E. Drabek -- Emergent citizen groups and emergency management / Robert A. Stallings and E. L. Quarantelli -- Financing disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery / Allen K. Settle -- Human resource development for emergency management / Gilbert B. Siegel -- Liability as a dilemma for local managers / Jon A. Kusler -- Coping with the media in disaster : some predictable problems / Joseph Scanlon, Suzanne Alldred, Al Farrell and Angela Prawzick -- Decision support for disaster management / William A. Wallace and Frank De Balogh -- Insurance versus disaster relief : an analysis of interactive modeling for disaster policy planning / Howard Kunreuther and Louis Miller -- Integrating organizational action in emergency management : strategies for change / Louise K. Comfort -- A framework for integrated emergency management / David McLoughlin