Fundamentals of Emergency Management

2006

Michael K. Lindell

Carla S. Prater

Ronald W. Perry

Washington, D.C.: FEMA

Documents below are in Adobe PDF format.


Title Page and Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Emergency Management

Chapter 2 - Emergency Stakeholders

Chapter 3 - Building an Effective Emergency Management Organization

Chapter 4 - Risk Perception and Communication

Chapter 5 - Principal Hazards in the United States

Chapter 6 - Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Analysis

Chapter 7 - Hazard Mitigation

Chapter 8 - Myths and Realities of Household Disaster Response

Chapter 9 - Preparedness for Emergency Response

Chapter 10 - Organizational Emergency Response

Chapter 11 - Community Disaster Recovery

Chapter 12 - Emergency Management Standards and Evaluations

Chapter 13 - International Emergency Management

Chapter 14 - Legal Issues in Emergency Management

Chapter 15 - Future Directions in Emergency Management

Appendix A - Common Emergency Management Acronyms

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