Emergency Management; The American Experience, 1900-2010

Chapter 1: Introduction: 110 Years of Disaster Response and Emergency Management in the United States Claire B. Rubin Chapter 2: Focusing Events in the Early Twentieth Century: A Hurricane, Two Earthquakes, and a Pandemic David Butler Chapter 3: The Expanding Role of the Federal Government: 1927-1950 David Butler Chapter 4: The Formative Years: 1950-1978 Keith Bea Chapter 5: Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979-2001 Richard T. Sylves Chapter 6: Emergency Management Restructured: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of Actions Taken since 9/11 John R. Harrald Chapter 7: 2005 Events and Outcomes: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond Melanie Gall and Susan L. Cutter Chapter 8: The System Is Tested: Response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill John R. Harrald Chapter 9: From a Painful Past to an Uncertain Future Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley Chapter 10: The Evolving Federal Role in Emergency Management: Policies and Processes Patrick Roberts, Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley Suggested Readings