A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management - Crowe, Adam S. (Richmond, Virginia, USA) - Libros - Taylor & Francis Inc - 9781482253917 - 20 de mayo de 2015
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Crowe, Adam S. (Richmond, Virginia, USA)
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A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management provides interdisciplinary analysis on how particular sets of conditions may occur in the future by evaluating global trends, possible scenarios, emerging conditions, and various other elements of risk management. Firmly based in science, the book leverages historical data, current best practices, and scientific and statistical data to make future projections to help emergency management, homeland security, and public safety officials make appropriate planning, preparedness, and resource management decisions in the present to prepare for future conditions and risks.

Focuses on trends in citizen behaviors, expectations, and choices related to technology, media, communication, and cross-cultural behavior Reflects the impacts of age, gender, and sexuality roles on emergency response expectations as well as the increasing politicization of disaster response and recovery activities Evaluates how perceptions of risk are changing?particularly in light of low probability, but high consequence events Considers emerging physical, social, environmental, and technological issues such as climate change, sustainability, globalization, and cyber threats

Divided into three sections, the book first focuses on trends in citizen behaviors, expectations, and choices related to technology, media, communication and cross-cultural behavior. It then explores the impacts of age, gender, and sexuality roles on emergency response expectations as well as the increasing politicization of disaster response and recovery activities. Additionally, the second section evaluates how perceptions of risk are changing ? particularly in light of low probability, but high consequence events. The book concludes with coverage of emerging physical, social, environmental, and technological issues such a climate change, sustainability, globalization, and cyber threats.

346 pages, 102 black & white illustrations

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 20 de mayo de 2015
ISBN13 9781482253917
Editores Taylor & Francis Inc
Páginas 346
Dimensiones 241 × 165 × 25 mm   ·   664 g
Lengua Inglés  

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