Bibliography Category: Disaster Preparation and Response

Department of Homeland Security. National Preparedness Goal, 1st edition. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011. http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=3773 (accessed 9 April 2012). This document discusses the core capabilities of the U.S. national preparedness effort, and details how each can be used to increase our national security, resilience, and ability to respond to threats.

Department of Homeland Security. National Emergency Communications Plan: Urban Area Communications Key Findings and Recommendations. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/necp_goal_1_findings_accessible.pdf (accessed 9 April 2012). This report summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Office of Emergency Communications (OEC)’s assessments following the completion of Goal One of the National Emergency Communications Plan, which […]

Department of Homeland Security. National Emergency Communications Plan. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2008. http://www.safecomprogram.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/NationalEmergencyCommunicationsPlan_Aug08_v2.pdf (accessed 9 April 2012). The purpose of this document is to promote the ability of emergency response providers and relevant government officials to continue to communicate in the event of natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters and […]

Department of Homeland Security. The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2006. http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps67263/katrina-lessons-learned.pdf (accessed 19 July 2011). This report describes the events before and after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, discussing pre-landfall preparedness efforts, post-landfall response efforts, and the many lessons learned.

Department of Defense. Joint Publication 3-41, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives Consequence Management. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2006. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp3_41.pdf (accessed 20 October 2011). This publication provides overarching guidelines and principles to assist commanders and their staffs in planning and conducting joint chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives consequence management operations.

Department of Defense. CONPLAN: United States Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan. Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2001. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA387385&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf (accessed 18 October 2011). The United States Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (CONPLAN) is designed to provide overall guidance to Federal, State and local agencies concerning how the Federal government would […]

Dembek, Zygmunt F. 2008. Preparedness for a CBRNE Event. Joint Forces Quarterly, no. 51 (October): 52-56. https://digitalndulibrary.ndu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ndupress&CISOPTR=20799&REC=2 (accessed 5 October 2011). This article examines military and health care provider preparedness in the event of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) attack. While the level of preparedness is difficult to accurately gauge, the level […]

Davis, Lynn E., Jill Rough, Gary Cecchine, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, and Laurinda L. Zeman. Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Army Planning and Operations. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2007. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG603.html (accessed 20 July 2011). This report focuses on the response efforts to Hurricane Katrina. The Katrina disaster had many of the same characteristics of a terrorist attack […]

Dall, Nicholas K. “The Department of Defense Chemical, Biological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive Response Enterprise: Have We Learned Lessons to Ensure an Effective Response?.” Master’s Thesis, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2011. http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll2/id/2773/rec/9 (accessed 10 August 2011). This thesis examines the reorganized CBRNE response enterprise, its effectiveness, and possible efforts to […]

C-SPAN. 2007. Government Disaster Response. Program 198370-1. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/GovernmentD (accessed 29 July 2011). This is a video clip of a speech at the Brookings Institution by U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen. He discussed Coast Guard operations, domestic security issues, enhanced unity of interagency collaboration, and responses to disasters.