Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management

Informationen zum Autor Tanveer Islam is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Management and Public Administration at Jacksonville State University, where he teaches hazard mitigation, community resilience and GIS courses. He received a PhD in land use planning from Texas Tech University and did postdoctoral research at Texas A&M marine branch in Galveston and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Environmental Cooperative Science Center. He is also a certified floodplain manager. Mr. Ryan is a retired US Army officer and currently a Professor at Jacksonville State University’s Department of Emergency Management within the Institute of Emergency Preparedness. The program provide instruction on various aspects of emergency preparedness with a focus on terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, medical aspects of emergency management, public health preparedness, biodefense, and biosecurity. His research interests are biothreat pathogen detection, agro-terrorism and the role of military forces in disaster response and humanitarian assistance. Since 2003, Professor Ryan has also served as Managing Director of Quetzal Consulting, Inc. a private firm specializing in a wide array of consultative services related to biothreat pathogen detection, tropical diseases research, course development, diagnostics development, marketing and product management. Services are provided to the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, defense contractors (SAIC, GeoCenters and EAI) and biotechnology and diagnostics companies, among others.

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• Authors: Tanveer Islam, Tanveer (Assistant Professor Islam, Tanveer (Associate Professor and Chair Islam, Tanveer (Department of Emergency Management Islam, Tanveer (Professor and Chair Islam, Tanveerul Islam, Islam Tanveer, Jeffrey Ryan, Jeffrey (Department of Emergency Management Ryan, Ryan Jeffrey
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2015
• EAN: 9780124201347
• ISBN: 978-0-12-420134-7
• No. of pages: 458
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, NATURE / Natural Disasters, COMPUTERS / Security / General, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, Social impact of disasters, Computer security, Natural disasters, Risk assessment, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)