The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S.
Disasters and emergency management reflect the broad policy trend toward centralization and the demise of federalism in the U.S. This volume seeks to reverse this course and offers a timely and much-needed vision of a less centrally planned and financed, and hopefully more robust and effective, approach to emergency management.
Dan S. Sutter, Troy University, U.S.A.
U.S. congressional debates over the last few years have highlighted a paradox: although research demonstrates that emergencies are most effectively managed at the local level, fiscal support and programmatic management in response to disasters has shifted to the federal level. While the growing complexity of catastrophes may overwhelm local capacities and would seem to necessitate more federal engagement, can a federal approach be sustainable, and can it contribute to local capacity-building?
This timely book examines local capacity-building as well as the current legal, policy, and fiscal framework for disaster management, questioning some of the fundamentals of the current system, exploring whether accountability and responsibilities are correctly placed, offering alternative models, and taking stock of the current practices that reflect an effective use of resources in a complex emergency management system. The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S. will be of interest to disaster and emergency managers as well as public servants and policy-makers at all levels tasked with responding to increasingly complex catastrophes of all kinds.
Amy LePore is President of Anthem Planning, LLC and past President of the Maryland Emergency Management Association. In 2015 she earned a Ph.D. in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware, U.S.A. Her research specialization is in federalism, dependence, and emergency management.
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The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S.
Rethinking Legislation, Policy, and Finance
Edited by Amy LePore
Adaptive Administration
Practice Strategies for Dealing with Constant Change in Public Administration and Policy
Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell
Non-Profit Organizations
Real Issues for Public Administrators
Nicolas A. Valcik, Teodoro J. Benavides, and Kimberly Scruton
Sustaining the States
The Fiscal Viability of American State Governments
Marilyn Marks Rubin and Katherine G. Willoughby
Using the Narcotrafico Threat to Build Public Administration Capacity between the US and Mexico
Donald E. Klingner and Roberto Moreno Espinosa
Environmental Policymaking and Stakeholder Collaboration
Theory and Practice
Shannon K. Orr
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Names: LePore, Amy, editor.
Title: The future of disaster management in the U.S. : rethinking
legislation, policy, and finance / edited by Amy LePore, Ph.D.
Other titles: Future of disaster management in the United States
Description: New York : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor &
Francis Group, an informa business, [2016] | Series: ASPA series in
public administration & public policy | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016029988 | ISBN 978-1-498-70001-6 (hbk : alk.
paper) | ISBN 978-1-315-31077-0 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Emergency managementGovernment policy
United States. | Emergency managementUnited StatesPlanning. |
Emergency managementUnited StatesFinance. | Disaster relief
Government policyUnited States. | Disaster reliefUnited
StatesPlanning. | Disaster reliefUnited StatesFinance.
Classification: LCC HV551.3 .F87 2016 | DDC 363.34/80973dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029988
ISBN: (hbk) 978-1-498-70001-6
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Simon A. Andrew , Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of North Texas. His research focuses on metropolitan governance and urban managementthe role of governance institutions and human behavior/interactions in solving institutional collective action problems. He studies the challenges of developing and sustaining multi-stakeholder collaborations in the context of disaster planning and management. He is an expert in Social Network Analysis (SNA) and quantitative research methods.
Christopher L. Atkinson , Ph.D., is an independent researcher, with research interests in public management, policy studies, regulation, and emergency management. He has a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University and an MPA from George Washington University. He is the author of Toward Resilient Communities: Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters .
Robert Bland , Ph.D., is the Endowed Professor of Local Government and Faculty Director of the Center for Public Management at the University of North Texas. He is the author of several books, including A Budgeting Guide for Local Government (3rd edition). He was the recipient of the first Terrell Blodgett Academician Award and the Stephen B. Sweeney Academic Award from ICMA. In 2012, he was elected a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration.
Emily Chamlee-Wright , Ph.D., is Provost and Dean of the College at Washington College. Chamlee-Wright is the editor of Liberal Learning and the Art of Self Governance (Routledge 2015) and author of The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment (Routledge 2010).
Jonathan W. Gaddy is Director of the Calhoun County, Alabama Emergency Management Agency, where he has worked since 2007. He is currently participating in FEMAs National Emergency Management Executive Academy and is also a member of the National Disaster Medical System (AL-1 DMAT). Mr. Gaddy is a masters candidate at the Naval Postgraduate Schools Center for Homeland Defense and Security and completed undergraduate studies in geography and emergency management at Jacksonville State University.
