Principles of Emergency Planning and Management
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Product details
- ISBN 9781903544105
- Weight: 528g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
David Alexander provides a concise yet comprehensive and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. The book introduces the methods, procedures, protocols and strategies of emergency planning, with an emphasis on situations within industrialized countries. It is designed to be a reference source and manual from which emergency mangers can extract ideas, suggestions and pro-forma methodologies to help them design and implement emergency plans.
David Alexander teaches emergency planning and management and has research interests in this field, as well as earthquake disaster analysis. His books include 'Natural Disasters', 'Confronting Catastrophe' and 'Principles of Emergency Planning and Management'. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Co-Editor of Disasters journal, and is a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.
