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Emergency and Risk Management Case Studies Textbook

"Emergency management is most simply defined as the discipline dealing with risk and risk avoidance. Risk represents a broad range of issues and includes an equally diverse set of players. The range of situations and events that could potentially involve emergency management or the emergency management system is extensive. It is undeniable that emergency management is integral to the security of our daily lives, and as such it should be...

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Material Type:
Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:
February 16, 2010
Date Modified in MERLOT:
May 18, 2020
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Cathy Swift
Primary Audience:
College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Professional
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Website
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Not specified at this time
Language:
English
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No
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CHRISTOPHER ATKINSON
CHRISTOPHER ATKINSON (Faculty)
40 weeks ago
Excellent source of basic information on emergency management. Delves into some detail with communication, businesses in disaster, and international examples. Some of the material is a bit dated but this is still foundational material for the field. Website is easy to use and has the chapters in the textbook broken out by individual chapter links, which could be useful for instructors to pick and choose which parts are most appropriate for the course in question.
Time spent reviewing site: 2 hours