A01=Richard T. Sylves
Author_Richard T. Sylves
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forthcoming
Product details
- ISBN 9781071883976
- Weight: 910g
- Dimensions: 187 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2026
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Combines evidence-based research with case studies of recent events to demonstrate the fundamental principles of emergency management and explore the impact that disasters have had on U.S. policy.
Richard Sylves is professor of political science at the University of Delaware. He has served on a National Academy of Science, National Research Council panel, and he has done funded and unfunded research for FEMA. He served three years as an appointed member of the National Academy of Science Disaster Roundtable. His books include The Nuclear Oracles; Disaster Management in the United States and Canada: Politics, Policy, Administration, Study and Instruction of Emergency Management; Cities and Disaster: North American Studies in Emergency Management (with William Waugh); and Homeland Security and Emergency Management: A Public Budgeting Perspective.
