NEW PUBLICATION
Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies
Arnold M. Howitt and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Editors (CQ Press, 2009)
Featuring 15 Kennedy School cases on large-scale emergencies – from the 1992 LA riots to Hurricane Katrina – this new textbook helps students consider some of the fundamental questions of emergency management: How should governments organize and plan for significant emergencies? What accounts for governments' effective responses to unfolding disasters? And how can governments and partner organizations improve response capabilities? Managing Crises gives students a clear understanding of the different types of disaster governments confront -- and of the key challenges governments face in preparing for and responding to these events.
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Arnold M. Howitt and Robyn Pangi, co-authors and editors, Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness (MIT Press, 2003). The events of September 11 awakened the United States to its vulnerability to terrorist attacks. In Countering Terrorism, experts from such disparate fields as medicine, law, public policy, and international security discuss institutional changes the country must make to protect against future attacks. In these essays, they argue that terrorism preparedness is not just a federal concern, but one that requires integrated efforts across federal, state, and local governments.
Juliette Kayyem and Robyn L. Pangi, co-authors and editors, First to Arrive: State and Local Responses to Terrorism (MIT Press, 2003). First to Arrive argues that the best way for America to prepare for terrorism is to listen to people in the field; those working on the ground can guide decisions at the top. Many of the contributors are first responders who have long been dedicated to domestic preparedness; others are political scientists and historians who provide a broader context. They analyze critical but often overlooked issues, explain the operational needs of state and local governments, and provide practical solutions to the challenges of local and state domestic preparedness.
Frederick J. Manning and Lewis Goldfrank, editors, Preparing for Terrorism, Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science (NAS, 2002). The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) provides funds to major U.S. cities to help them develop plans for coping with the health and medical consequences of a terrorist attack with chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) agents. This report provides the managers of the MMRS program and others concerned about local capabilities to cope with CBR terrorism with three evaluation tools and a three-part assessment method. (NAS panel member/authors include Arnold M. Howitt, Joseph Barbera, Frances Edwards Winslow, and Darrel Stephens—all members of the Kennedy School’s Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness.)
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