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Public Health and Emergency Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Barishansky, Raphael, Marko Bourne, Darrell Darnell, Robert Kadlec, Daniel Kaniewski, John Paczkowski, Peter Roman, and Adam Thiel, Public Health and Emergency Management: Challenges and Opportunities. Washington, DC: Homeland Security Policy Institute (PDF), June 7, 2012.
On June 7 the Homeland Security Policy Institute released its latest in a series of resilience reports prepared by their Preparedness, Response, and Resilience Taskforce. This one focused on the challenges that still exist in improving public health preparedness since Hurricane Katrina exposed critical gaps. Dr. Robert Kadlec of HSPI’s Preparedness, Response, and Resilience Task Force, said, “While we have achieved much in preparing for an uncertain future of natural disasters and deliberate incidents, we have yet to reach the levels of preparedness required to fulfill our goal of resilience.”
Displaced Life in the Katrina Diaspora
Weber, Lynn and Peek, Lori, eds. Displaced Life in the Katrina Diaspora. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2012 $55.00 (Cloth) $24.95 (Paper)
The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced. Drawing on research in thirteen communities in seven states across the country, the contributors describe the struggles that evacuees have faced in securing life-sustaining resources and rebuilding their lives. They also recount the impact that the displaced have had on communities that initially welcomed them and then later experienced “Katrina fatigue” as the ongoing needs of evacuees strained local resources. Displaced reveals that Katrina took a particularly heavy toll on households headed by low-income African American women who lost the support provided by local networks of family and friends. It also shows the resilience and resourcefulness of Katrina evacuees who have built new networks and partnered with community organizations and religious institutions to create new lives in the diaspora.
New Reports on Homeland Security
New reports from GAO, CRS and more
Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires III
Brebbia, C.A. and Perona, G., eds. Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires III, Southamption, UK: The WIT Press, 2012. (pp 258. $222.00)
Innovation, Dual Use, and Security
Tucker, Jonathan B., ed. Innovation, Dual Use, and Security Managing the Risks of Emerging Biological and Chemical Technologies. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012. (pp. 356, Paper. $27.00)