Pinkowski/DisasterManagementHandbook AU5862_C000 FinalProof page i 13.12.2007 10:51am CompositorName:VBalamugundan Disaster Management Handbook Pinkowski/DisasterManagementHandbook AU5862_C000 FinalProof page ii 13.12.2007 10:51am CompositorName:VBalamugundan PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY A Comprehensive Publication Program EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EVAN M. BERMAN Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor Louisiana State University Public Administration Institute Baton Rouge,Louisiana Founding Editor JACK RABIN Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy The Pennsylvania State University—Harrisburg School of Public Affairs Middletown,Pennsylvania 1. Public Administration as a Developing Discipline, Robert T. Golembiewski 2. Comparative National Policies on Health Care,Milton I. Roemer, M.D. 3. Exclusionary Injustice: The Problem of Illegally Obtained Evidence, Steven R. Schlesinger 5. Organization Development in Public Administration,edited by Robert T. Golembiewski and William B. Eddy 7. Approaches to Planned Change,Robert T. Golembiewski 8. Program Evaluation at HEW,edited by James G. Abert 9. The States and the Metropolis,Patricia S. Florestano and Vincent L. Marando 11. Changing Bureaucracies: Understanding the Organization before Selecting the Approach,William A. Medina 12. Handbook on Public Budgeting and Financial Management,edited by Jack Rabin and Thomas D. Lynch 15. Handbook on Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations, edited by Jack Rabin, Thomas Vocino, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller 19. Handbook of Organization Management,edited by William B. Eddy 22. Politics and Administration: Woodrow Wilson and American Public Administration,edited by Jack Rabin and James S. Bowman 23. Making and Managing Policy: Formulation, Analysis, Evaluation, edited by G. Ronald Gilbert 25. Decision Making in the Public Sector,edited by Lloyd G. Nigro 26. Managing Administration,edited by Jack Rabin, Samuel Humes, and Brian S. Morgan 27. Public Personnel Update,edited by Michael Cohen and Robert T. Golembiewski Pinkowski/DisasterManagementHandbook AU5862_C000 FinalProof page iii 13.12.2007 10:51am CompositorName:VBalamugundan 28. State and Local Government Administration,edited by Jack Rabin and Don Dodd 29. Public Administration: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature, Howard E. McCurdy 31. Handbook of Information Resource Management,edited by Jack Rabin and Edward M. Jackowski 32. Public Administration in Developed Democracies: A Comparative Study, edited by Donald C. Rowat 33. The Politics of Terrorism: Third Edition, edited by Michael Stohl 34. Handbook on Human Services Administration,edited by Jack Rabin and Marcia B. Steinhauer 36. Ethics for Bureaucrats: An Essay on Law and Values, Second Edition, John A. Rohr 37. The Guide to the Foundations of Public Administration, Daniel W. Martin 39. Terrorism and Emergency Management: Policy and Administration, William L. Waugh, Jr. 40. Organizational Behavior and Public Management: Second Edition, Michael L. Vasu, Debra W. Stewart, and G. David Garson 43. Government Financial Management Theory,Gerald J. Miller 46. Handbook of Public Budgeting, edited by Jack Rabin 49. Handbook of Court Administration and Management, edited by Steven W. Hays and Cole Blease Graham, Jr. 50. Handbook of Comparative Public Budgeting and Financial Management, edited by Thomas D. Lynch and Lawrence L. Martin 53. Encyclopedia of Policy Studies: Second Edition, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 54. Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law,edited by David H. Rosenbloom and Richard D. Schwartz 55. Handbook of Bureaucracy,edited by Ali Farazmand 56. Handbook of Public Sector Labor Relations, edited by Jack Rabin, Thomas Vocino, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller 57. Practical Public Management, Robert T. Golembiewski 58. Handbook of Public Personnel Administration, edited by Jack Rabin, Thomas Vocino, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller 60. Handbook of Debt Management, edited by Gerald J. Miller 61. Public Administration and Law: Second Edition, David H. Rosenbloom and Rosemary O’Leary 62. Handbook of Local Government Administration, edited by John J. Gargan 63. Handbook of Administrative Communication, edited by James L. Garnett and Alexander Kouzmin 64. Public Budgeting and Finance: Fourth Edition, edited by Robert T. Golembiewski and Jack Rabin 67. Handbook of Public Finance, edited by Fred Thompson and Mark T. Green 68. Organizational Behavior and Public Management: Third Edition, Michael L. Vasu, Debra W. Stewart, and G. David Garson 69. Handbook of Economic Development, edited by Kuotsai Tom Liou 70. Handbook of Health Administration and Policy, edited by Anne Osborne Kilpatrick and James A. Johnson Pinkowski/DisasterManagementHandbook AU5862_C000 FinalProof page iv 13.12.2007 10:51am CompositorName:VBalamugundan 72. Handbook on Taxation, edited by W. Bartley Hildreth and James A. Richardson 73.Handbook of Comparative Public Administration in the Asia-Pacific Basin, edited by Hoi-kwok Wong and Hon S. Chan 74.Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration, edited by Dennis L. Soden and Brent S. Steel 75.Handbook of State Government Administration, edited by John J. Gargan 76. Handbook of Global Legal Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 78. Handbook of Global Economic Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 79.Handbook of Strategic Management: Second Edition, edited by Jack Rabin, Gerald J. Miller, and W. Bartley Hildreth 80. Handbook of Global International Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 81. Handbook of Organizational Consultation: Second Edition, edited by Robert T. Golembiewski 82. Handbook of Global Political Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 83. Handbook of Global Technology Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 84. Handbook of Criminal Justice Administration, edited by M. A. DuPont-Morales, Michael K. Hooper, and Judy H. Schmidt 85. Labor Relations in the Public Sector: Third Edition, edited by Richard C. Kearney 86. Handbook of Administrative Ethics: Second Edition, edited by Terry L. Cooper 87. Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Second Edition, edited by Robert T. Golembiewski 88. Handbook of Global Social Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel and Amy Robb 89. Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective,Sixth Edition, Ferrel Heady 90. Handbook of Public Quality Management, edited by Ronald J. Stupak and Peter M. Leitner 91. Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform, edited by Kuotsai Tom Liou 93. Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management, edited by Ali Farazmand 94. Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration: Second Edition, edited by Ali Farazmand 95. Financial Planning and Management in Public Organizations, Alan Walter Steiss and Emeka O. Cyprian Nwagwu 96. Handbook of International Health Care Systems, edited by Khi V. Thai, Edward T. Wimberley, and Sharon M. McManus 97. Handbook of Monetary Policy, edited by Jack Rabin and Glenn L. Stevens 98. Handbook of Fiscal Policy, edited by Jack Rabin and Glenn L. Stevens 99. Public Administration: An Interdisciplinary Critical Analysis, edited by Eran Vigoda 100. Ironies in Organizational Development: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded,edited by Robert T. Golembiewski 101. Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism, edited by Tushar K. Ghosh, Mark A. Prelas, Dabir S. Viswanath, and Sudarshan K. Loyalka Pinkowski/DisasterManagementHandbook AU5862_C000 FinalProof page v 13.12.2007 10:51am CompositorName:VBalamugundan 102. Strategic Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Alan Walter Steiss 103. Case Studies in Public Budgeting and Financial Management: Second Edition, edited by Aman Khan and W. Bartley Hildreth 104. Handbook of Conflict Management, edited by William J. Pammer, Jr. and Jerri Killian 105. Chaos Organization and Disaster Management, Alan Kirschenbaum 106. Handbook of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Administration and Policy, edited by Wallace Swan 107. Public Productivity Handbook: Second Edition, edited by Marc Holzer 108. Handbook of Developmental Policy Studies, edited by Gedeon M. Mudacumura, Desta Mebratu and M. Shamsul Haque 109. Bioterrorism in Medical and Healthcare Administration, Laure Paquette 110. International Public Policy and Management: Policy Learning Beyond Regional, Cultural, and Political Boundaries, edited by David Levi-Faur and Eran Vigoda-Gadot 111. Handbook of Public Information Systems, Second Edition,edited by G. David Garson 112. Handbook of Public Sector Economics, edited by Donijo Robbins 113. Handbook of Public Administration and Policy in the European Union, edited by M. Peter van der Hoek 114. Nonproliferation Issues for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Mark A. Prelas and Michael S. Peck 115. Common Ground, Common Future: Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship, Charles Garofalo and Dean Geuras 116. Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach, Second Edition, edited by Thomas D. Lynch and Peter L. Cruise 117. International Development Governance, edited by Ahmed Shafiqul Huque and Habib Zafarullah 118. Sustainable Development Policy and Administration, edited by Gedeon M. Mudacumura, Desta Mebratu, and M. Shamsul Haque 119. Public Financial Management, edited by Howard A. Frank 120. Handbook of Juvenile Justice: Theory and Practice, edited by Barbara Sims and Pamela Preston 121. Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Threat to Occupational Health in the U.S. and Canada, edited by William Charney 122. Handbook of Technology Management in Public Administration, edited by David Greisler and Ronald J. Stupak 123. Handbook of Decision Making, edited by Göktug˘ Morçöl 124. Handbook of Public Administration, Third Edition, edited by Jack Rabin, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller 125. Handbook of Public Policy Analysis, edited by Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller, and Mara S. Sidney 126. Elements of Effective Governance: Measurement, Accountability and Participation, edited by Kathe Callahan 127. American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System, edited by James S. Bowman and Jonathan P. West 128. Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration, edited by Jeremy Plant Pinkowski/DisasterManagementHandbook AU5862_C000 FinalProof page vi 13.12.2007 10:51am CompositorName:VBalamugundan 129. The Art and Practice of Court Administration, Alexander B. Aikman 130. Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration, edited by Ali Farazmand and Jack Pinkowski 131. Handbook of Globalization and the Environment, edited by Khi V. Thai, Dianne Rahm, and Jerrell D. Coggburn 132. Personnel Management in Government: Politics and Process, Sixth Edition,Norma M. Riccucci and Katherine C. Naff 133. Handbook of Police Administration,edited by Jim Ruiz and Don Hummer 134. Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, Second Edition,edited by Kaifeng Yang and Gerald J. Miller 135. Social and Economic Control of Alcohol: The 21st Amendment in the 21st Century,edited by Carole L. Jurkiewicz and Murphy J. Painter 136. Government Public Relations: A Reader,edited by Mordecai Lee 137. Handbook of Military Administration,edited by Jeffrey A. Weber and Johan Eliasson 138. Disaster Management Handbook,edited by Jack Pinkowski Available Electronically Principles and Practices of Public Administration,edited by Jack Rabin, Robert F. Munzenrider, and Sherrie M. 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