Disaster Emergency Management - The Emergence of Professional Help Services for Victims of Natural

Informationen zum Autor Liza Ireni Saban is Deputy Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. She is the author of Disaster Emergency Management: The Emergence of Professional Help Services for Victims of Natural Disasters , also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Examines how public officials in the US, China, Japan, and Indonesia have interacted with communities affected by natural disasters. Survival in times of disaster is a question of utmost importance to both the victims of those events and to the professionals and people in authority who are there to serve them. In Disaster Emergency Management , Liza Ireni Saban examines what leads some nations, communities, and individuals to rise to the occasion during these times of trauma, while others do not. Utilizing case studies of China, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States, she focuses in particular on the dilemma faced by local emergency officials who, rather than elected officials, find themselves "on the front lines," suddenly confronted with complex public problems. Recent studies have pointed to a breakdown of government and bureaucratic decision making in the face of intense crisis situations. Saban demonstrates the inadequacies of grappling with what are in truth contested ethical issues within a framework whose approach is technical-rational. She draws on communitarian ethics to redefine the role of the bureaucrat so that community resilience, through attention to local values and needs, is fostered prior to the actual crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Liza Ireni Saban, Liza Ireni Saban
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9781438452432
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5243-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, NATURE / Natural Disasters, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Emergency Management, Aid & relief programmes, Social impact of disasters, Natural disasters, Emergency Services, Aid and relief programmes, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)