Emergency Planning

Emergency Planning, Second Edition introduces the process and practice of emergency planning, a critical avenue to community emergency preparedness. The book addresses a range of strategies and skills that planners require to achieve a successful planning process. The reader is taught patterns of human disaster behavior, social psychology, and communication as well as the basics of generic protective actions (in-place protection, expedient respiratory protection and evacuation), planning concepts, implementation, action, and the creation of emergency operations centers.

Easy-to-read, practical, and up-to-date, the new edition expands on the topics previously covered and helps readers learn fundamental emergency planning concepts and master the core competencies and skills needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond.

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