Bibliography Category: Disaster Preparation and Response

Robinson, Lance. 2007. Proceedings of the Workshop on Preparing for and Responding to Disasters in North America. Homeland Security Affairs Supplement. http://www.hsaj.org/?special:fullarticle=0.1.1 (accessed 15 February 2012). These proceedings provide a review of emergency response to disasters in North America, particularly the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Reid, R. Dan. 2005. What Organizations Can Learn from Hurricane Katrina. Quality Progress. http://asq.org/quality-progress/2005/11/standards-outlook/what-organizations-can-learn-from-hurricane-katrina.html (accessed 28 October 2011). This article examines lessons learned about emergency management and disaster planning from Hurricane Katrina.

Reid, Elaine D. Social Network Collaboration for Crisis Response Operations: Developing a Situational Awareness (SA) Tool to Improve Haiti’s Interagency Relief Efforts. Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2011. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2011/June/11Jun_Reid.pdf (accessed 4 August 2011). This thesis develops a new model and methodology, based on data collected following the Haiti earthquake that combines both text-mining […]

Project on National Security Reform. Recalibrating the System: Toward Efficient and Effective Resourcing of National Preparedness. Washington, DC: Project on National Security Reform, 2009. http://old.pnsr.org/data/files/pnsr_national_preparedness_system.pdf (accessed 18 October 2011). This report examines the National Security Preparedness System and identifies three inter-related problem areas: (1) risk assessment; (2) operational planning, and exercise validation; and (3) the […]

Parsons, Michael D. Beyond Triage: The Escalation of Empowerment by U.S. Military Forces in Support of International Disaster Response. Master’s Thesis, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2008. http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll2/id/1628 (accessed 12 August 2011). This study provides a broad operational-level survey of the conditions for the U.S. military response to the Indonesian Tsunami in […]

Ostensvig, Ina. Interagency cooperation in disaster management: partnership, information and communications technology and committed individuals in Jamaica. Norwegian University of Life Sciences. 2006. http://www.islandvulnerability.org/m/oestensvigm.pdf (accessed 5 March 2012). This study examines the partnership and interagency cooperation in the disaster management system in Jamaica during Hurricane Ivan. The use of information and communications technology in this […]

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 Commission Report. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2004. http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report.pdf (accessed 19 July 2011). This report is the result of a congressional mandate that created a National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The commission investigated the facts and circumstances relating to the […]

Mushkatal, Alvin H. and Louis F. Weschler. 1985. Emergency Management and the Intergovernmental System. Public Administration Review Vol. 45: 49-56. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3134997?uid=3739744&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101109518833 (accessed 4 October 2012) This article expands on the importance of the intergovernmental policy system for emergency management. The article is largely speculative due to the lack of empirical knowledge about the relationships between agencies at […]

Miller, DeMond Shondell, and Jason David Rivera. Comparative Emergency Management: Examining Global and Regional Responses to Disasters. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011. This book presents the work of researchers and practitioners who examine ways different societies – including the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim – have responded […]

Menzel, Donald C. 2006. The Katrina Aftermath: A Failure of Federalism or Leadership?. Public Administration Review Vol. 66, no. 6: 808-812. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00649.x/pdf (accessed 27 October 2011). This article reviews two reports released in February 2006 that attempt to describe, explain, and learn from the implementation disaster that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The reports include […]