Bibliography Category: Disaster Preparation and Response

Congress. House of Representatives. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology of the Committee on Homeland Security. Emergency Planning and Preparedness: Federal, State, and Local Coordination. 109th Cong., 2nd sess., 2006. No. 109-73. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_house_hearings&docid=f:36959.pdf (accessed 29 July 2011). This is a transcript of a House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology hearing on federal, […]

Congress. House of Representatives. A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2006. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/katrinareport/mainreport.pdf (accessed 19 July 2011). This is the final report of the House Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to […]

Comfort, Louise K. 2007. Crisis Management in Hindsight: Cognition, Communication, Coordination, and Control. Public Administration Review Vol. 67, no. s1: 189-197. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00827.x/pdf (accessed 26 October 2011). This article argues that cognition is central to performance in emergency management. Cognition is defined as the capacity to recognize the degree of emerging risk to which a community […]

Comfort, Louise K. 2002. Managing Intergovernmental Responses to Terrorism and Other Extreme Events. Publius Vol. 32, no. 4 (Fall): 29-51. Additional information is not available.

Comfort, Louise K. 1985. Integrating Organizational Action in Emergency Management: Strategies for Change. Public  Administration Review Vol. 45: 155-164. Additional information is not available.

Col, Jeanne-Marie. 2007. Managing Disasters: The Role of Local Government. Public Administration Review Vol. 67, no. s1: 114-124. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00820.x/pdf (accessed 26 October 2011). This essay compares the experience of New Orleans before, during, and after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina with the performance of Qinglong County, China, during the Tangshan earthquake of 1976. Qinglong County […]

Cloutier, Roger, Jason Garkey, Marc Bouth, Steve Ranieri, and Erik Gemza. 2009. “First Brigade Third Infantry Division as the Inaugural Task Force Operations for the 2009 Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives Consequence Management Response Force.” Civil Support and the U.S. Army Newsletter no. 10-16 (December): 91-104. http://usamars.us/pdf/10-16_Civil_Support_and_the_US_Army-Dec09.pdf (accessed 5 October 2011). This article […]

Center for Naval Analysis. The Expert’s Roundtable on Catastrophe – Altered Landscapes of Catastrophes: Insights from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Alexandria, VA: Center for Naval Analysis, 2011. http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/news/2011/SAS%20Experts%20Roundtable%20on%20Great%20East%20Japan%20Earthquake%20(3).pdf (accessed 26 January 2012). This is a report containing the conclusions of an expert’s roundtable discussion at the Center for Naval Analysis. The primary purpose of […]

Center for Army Lessons Learned. Disaster Response Staff Officer’s Handbook: Observations, Insights, and Lessons. 2010. http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/call/docs/11-07/11-07.pdf (accessed 12 August 2011). This document examines U.S. military response to disasters in the homeland, including tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, oil spills, and terrorist attacks.

Carwile, William. 2005. Unified Command and the State-Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi. Homeland Security Affairs Vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall). http://www.hsaj.org/?fullarticle=1.2.6 (accessed 15 February 2012). This article describes the general concepts, background, and history of Unified Command, as well as the use of Unified Command principles in the disaster response to the 2004 […]