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  • 2009
  • Casebook

Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies

By: Arnold M. Howitt and Herman B. Leonard
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Abstract

This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for disaster situations, and distinguishing between routine emergency events and true crisis emergency events.

Keywords

Crisis Management; Planning; Natural Disasters

Citation

Howitt, Arnold M. and Herman B. Leonard, eds. Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2009.
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Dutch Leonard

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