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In this textbook meant for students of crisis management and leadership, Howitt (Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Leadership in Crises program, China Crisis Management program, and Program on Emergency Preparedness, Harvard U.) and Leonard (public management and business administration, Harvard U.) offer a case-based examination of crisis and emergency management that provides detailed cases about specific emergency events in the context of discussions about concepts, terminology, hypotheses, and theories. Cases include Hurricane Katrina, the 1992 LA riots, 9/11, the anthrax crisis, and security preparations for the 1996 Olympic Games. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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From floods to fires, tornadoes to terrorist attacks, governments must respond to a variety of crises and meet reasonable standards of performance. What accounts for governments’ effective responses to unfolding disasters? How should they organize and plan for significant emergencies? With fifteen adapted Kennedy School cases, students experience first-hand a series of large-scale emergencies and come away with a clear sense of the different types of disaster situations governments confront, with each type requiring different planning, resourcing, skill-building, leadership, and execution. Grappling with the details of flawed responses to the LA Riots or Hurricane Katrina, or with the success of the Incident Management System during the Pentagon fire on 9/11, students start to see the ways in which responders can improve capabilities and more adeptly navigate between technical or operational needs and political considerations.
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