Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management: Public Administration and Public Policy

HANDBOOK OF CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
by Ali Farazmand, Editor

Including contributions from sixty international authors, this book examines
emergency responses to
environmental dangers such as chemical fires, hazardous material and oil spills,
nuclear reactor
accidents, and earthquakes, and crises in the environment, global public service,
and politics. It covers a
wide range of international issues and topics, using various analyses, including
critical, descriptive,
empirical, quantitative, and normative methods. The book discusses approaches to
natural disasters,
resolutions to cultural, religious, and political tensions, terrorism and the potential
use of biological,
chemical, and nuclear weapons, the role of crisis public relations, and more.

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This first and only comprehensive guide ever published on crisis and emergency
management in a
single volume instructs politicians, policy makers, administrators, researchers,
students, and teachers on
a wide range of international issues and topics in public administration, political
science, and public
policy—using various analyses, including critical, descriptive, empirical,
quantitative, and normative
methods.

Richly referenced with more than 1500 citations and containing first-hand
contributions from 60
international authors, the HANDBOOK OF CRISIS AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT examines
responses to environmental dangers such as chemical fires, hazardous material
and oil spills, nuclear
reactor accidents, and earthquakes, plus crises in the environment, global public
service, and politics...
reviews approaches to natural disasters in Korea, India, Hong Kong, Iran,
Bangladesh, China, Japan, the
U.K., and the U.S...considers resolutions to cultural, religious, and political
tensions in Lebanon, Jordan,
and the Persian Gulf countries... focuses on the conflicts and coexistence of
liberalism, nationalism, and
religion in Israel... discusses terrorism and safeguards implemented for the
potential use of biological,
chemical, and nuclear weapons... defines the role of crisis public relations...
illuminates U.S. domestic
policies toward municipal bankruptcy, housing shortages, homeless citizens,
natural disasters, and
political crises... clarifies how the United Nations works to resolve civil conflict...
informs citizens and
governments around the world of the global crisis in public service and
administration... provides
alarming information on ethical and moral crises in governance and administration
worldwide... and
more.

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“...Praise for the first edition... the most comprehensive collection of essays on
comparative and
development public administration topics to be published within the last two
decades... encyclopaedic...
Intended to serve students and instructors of comparative and development public
administration, as well
as comparative politics and policy... [The] most comprehensive reference source
for researchers and
policy makers.” - International Review of Administrative Sciences Prepublication
praise.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

CONTRIBUTORS

UNIT ONE: CRISIS MANAGEMENT

PART I MICRO-MACRO ISSUES: GROUP AND INTERGROUP CRISIS
MANAGEMENT
1. Introduction: Crisis and Emergency Management, by Ali Farazmand
2. The Crisis of Character in Comparative Perspective, by David L. Dillman
and
Mel Hailey
3. Preparing for Diversity in the Midst of Adversity: An Intercultural
Communication
Training
Program for Refugee-Assistance Crisis Management, by Phyllis Bo-Yuen Ngai and
Peter Koehn
4. Formation of Motivation Crisis: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Religion in
Israel,
by Efraim
Ben-Zadok

PART II MACRO ISSUES: ORGANIZATIONAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT
5. Crisis Policy Making: Some Implications for Program Management, by
David C.
Nice and
Ashley Grosse
6. Disaster Impact upon Urban Economic Structure: Linkage Disruption and
Economic
Recovery, by Richard M. Vogel
7. Crisis in the the U.S. Administrative State, by Ali Farazmand
8. Global Cris in Public Service and Administration, by Ali Farazmand

PART III MACRO ISSUES: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL CRISIS
MANAGEMENT
9. Immmigrants, Refugess, and Affordable Housing Crisis in South Florida,
by
Margaret S.
Nurray
10. Managing “Complex Emergencies:” U.N. Administration and the
Resolution of
Civil Wars, by
Karl Jamieson Irving
11. Managing Through A Crisis: A Case Study 0f the Orange County,
California
Bankruptcy, by
M. Celeste Murphy
12. System Crisis: The 1973 War Crisis in Israel, by Efraim Ben-Zadok
13. Homeless Policy Initiatives: Managing or Muddling Through the Crisis? By
Leslie A. Leip

UNIT TWO: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: MICRO AND MACRO
ISSUES

PART I ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
14. Smoke on the Water: Fighting Fires at Sea, by Pamela Tarquinio Brannon
and
Dave Lee
Brannon
15. From Texas City to Exxon Valdez: What Have We Learned About
Managing
Marine
Disasters? By John R. Harrald and Hugh W. Stephens
16. Environmental Public relations and Crisis Management: Two Paradigmatic
Cases - Bhopal
and Exxon, by Tim Ziaukas
17. Metropolitan Medical Strike Team Systems: Responding to the Medical
Demands of
WMD/NBC Events, by Frances E. Winslow and John Walmsley
18. Managing Urban Violence Cases in Hospital Emergency Departments, by
Terry
F. Buss

PART II MACRO AND MICRO ISSUES IN CONCEPTUAL, POLICY,
PRACTICAL, AND EMPIRICAL
ASPECTS OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
19. A New Use for an Old Model: Continuity of Government as a Framework
for
Local Emergency
Managers, by Hugh W. Stephens and George O. Grant
20. What Disaster Response Management Can Learn from Chaos Theory, by
Gustav A. Koehler,
Guenther G. Kress, and Randi L. Miller
21. The Psychology of Evacuation and the Design of Policy, by Jasmin K.
Riad,
William Lee
Waugh, Jr., and Fran H. Norris
22. The Role of Technology and Human Factors in Emergency Management,
by
Francis R. Terry
23. The Intergovernmental Dimensions of Natural Disaster and Crisis
Management
in the United
States, by Alka Sapat
24. The Evolution of Emergency Management in America: From a Painful Past
to a
Promising but
Uncertain Future, by Aaron Schroeder, Gary Wamsley, and Robert Ward

UNIT THREE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES ON
CRISIS
AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

PART I CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN NORTH AND LATIN
AMERICA
25. Community Recovery and Reconstruction Following Disasters, by Steven
D.
Stehr
26. Potential for Disaster: Case Study of the Powell Duffryn Chemical Fire and
Hazardous
Material Spill, by Jack Pinkowski
27. American Presidential Crisis Management Under Kennedy: The Cuban
Missile
Crisis, by
Robert E. Dewhirst
28. Emergency Management on a Grand Scale: A Bureaucrat's Analysis, by
John
Carroll
29. Lessons Learned from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl Reactor
Accidents, by
Frances E.
Winslow

PART II CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE
30. The 1989 Rail Disaster at Clapham in South London, by Francis R. Terry

PART III CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN ASIA AND AFRICA
31. Emergency Management in Korea: Mourning over Tragic Deaths, by Pan
Suk
Kim and Jae
Eun Lee
32. The 1994 Plague Outbreak in Surat, India: Social Networks and Disaster
Management, by
Rita Kabra and Renu Khator
33. Disaster Management in Hong Kong, by Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
34. Coping with Calamities: Disaster Management in Bangladesh, by Habib
Zafarullah,
Mohammad Habibur Rahman, and Mohammad Mohabbat Khan
35. Crisis Management in Japan: Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji
Earthquake of 1995
Masaru Sakamoto
36. Integrating Public Administration, Science, and Community Action: A
Case of
Early-Warning
Success in Qinglong County for the Magnitude 7.8 Tangshan Earthquake, by
Jeanne-Marie Col and
Jean J. Chu
37. Public Management and Natural Disasters: A Case Study of Earthquake
Management in Iran,
by Behrooz Kalantari

PART IV CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE NEAR AND
MIDDLE EAST
38. Lebanon: Culture and Crisis, by Gil Gunderson
39. Transforming Danger into Opportunity: Jordan and the Refugee Crisis of
1990,
by Emad
Mruwat, Yaser Adwan, and Robert Cunningham

PART V TERRORISM AND CRISIS/EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
40. Managing Terrorism as an Environmental Hazard, by William Lee Waugh,
Jr.
41. Planning for Weapons of Mass Destruction/Nuclear, Biological, and
Chemical
Agents: A
Local/Federal Partnership, by Frances E. Winslow

PART VI LONG-TERM STRATEGIC PLANS FOR PREVENTION OF AND
PREPAREDNESS FOR
CRISIS AND EMERGENCIES
42. Emergency Managers for the New Millennium, by Ellis M. Stanley, Sr.,
and
William Lee
Waugh, Jr.
43. Coastal Hazard Mitigation in Florida, by Patricia M. Schapley and Lorena
Schwartz
44. Planning for Prevention: Emergency Preparedness and Planning to
Lessen
the
Potential for Crisis, by Jack Pinkowski
45. Managing Refugee-Assistance Crises in the Twenty-First Century: The
Intercultural
Communication Factor, by Peter Koehn and Phyllis Bo-Yuen Ngai

INDEX

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ABOUT THE EDITOR

ALI FARAZMAND is Professor of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University,
Fort Lauderdale. The
author or editor of 18 books, including the Handbook of Bureaucracy and the
Handbook of Comparative
and Development Public Administration, Second Edition, as well as numerous
journal articles and book
chapters, he is a member of the American Society for Public Administration, the
International Studies
Association, the International Political Science Association, the American Political
Science Association,
the Eastern Regional Organization of Public Administration, and the Middle
Eastern Studies
Association, among others, and founding editor-in-chief of Public Organization
Review: A Global Journal.
His research and writings include a multidimensional project on globalization and
its consequences for
governance, administration, and self-determination. Dr. Farazmand received the
B.A. degree (1971) in
business administration from the University of Tehran, Iran, and the M.S. degree
(1978) in educational
administration and supervision, the M.P.A. degree (1978) in public administration,
and the Ph.D. degree
(1982) in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse
University, New York.

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