Safeguarding Homeland Security Governors and Mayors Speak Out / edited by Simon Hakim, Erwin A. Blackstone.

This book brings together the technological and managerial innovations suggested and applied by the nation’s leading governors and mayors in their own words. It includes models for public-private partnerships to improve preparation for, response and recovery from major natural disasters and terroris...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hakim, Simon (Editor), Blackstone, Erwin A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • The Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security
  • Creating the Boston Medical Reserve Corps
  • The Hierarchy of Emergency Preparedness
  • Border Security and State Safety and Security: Addressing Common Agendas
  • Lessons Learned from the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season: How This Highly Active Year Helped Jacksonville, Florida, Build a Better Emergency Response System
  • Disaster Management: Privatization as a Viable Alternative©
  • Caring for the Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and Rita
  • Sheltering and Evacuating from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
  • Local Government Contingency Planning for Public Security and Public Safety – Innovative and Remedial Efforts
  • Technological and Regional Cooperation Strategies: Securing the City and Port of Oakland, California
  • Innovative Anti-terror Information Sharing: Maryland’s Federal, State, and Local Partnership Model
  • Public Safety and Homeland Security Solutions: An Evolution of Technology and Policy
  • Utilizing Technology Within the Delaware Information and Analysis Center
  • From Curiosity to Collaboration: Leveraging Technology to Improve Situational Awareness
  • How a Midwestern “Digital City” Serves and Protects the Public
  • Hurricanes and Modern Communications Infrastructure
  • The First Line of Defense: Cities Using Technology in Homeland Defense
  • Full Interoperability for All South Dakota Public Safety
  • Evolutionary Planning for the Technology Revolution
  • History of Regional Unified and Integrated Public Safety and Public Service Communication and Transportation Systems
  • Interoperability in the City of Tampa: A Partnership with the Department of Homeland Security
  • Capital Connections: Washington’s Public Safety Communications Suite
  • Information, Leadership and Decisiveness, All in One Room
  • Beyond an Information Technology Approach to Continuity of Operations: The Commonwealth of Virginia Story
  • The Soft Stuff is Still the Hard Stuff.