Emergency Management Threats and Hazards

Emergency Management Threats and Hazards: Water is a resource guidebook which bridges the work of the emergency management practitioners and academic researchers specifically for water-related incidents. Practitioners typically follow a disaster phase cycle of preparedness/protection/prevention response recovery and mitigation– all of which have distinct actions and missions to reduce or eliminate adverse impacts from both threats and hazards. Academics will find the connections to allied fields such as meteorology hydrology homeland security healthcare and more. The book examines many of the distinct differences and variances within the specific scope of water-related incidents crises emergencies and disasters. It provides examples and practical strategies for protection/prevention response recovery and mitigation against adverse impacts to people property and organizations. It is also organized in the same construct used by emergency management practitioners (incident command system elements disaster cycle phases etc.) which will help align the academic world of emergency management education to both the practice and the training in the emergency management field.Takes a global view on threats and hazards as well as their solutions.Provides a single repository of the majority of water-related incidents and provides a how to guide for resilience.Identifies cascading impacts and provides checklists for resolutionscludes numerous case studies organized by threat and hazard.Chapter [1] of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license