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Spotlight Titles for National Preparedness Month

By IGI Global on Sep 1, 2014
September is National Preparedness Month in the United States, sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) within the Department of Homeland Security. National Preparedness Month encourages people to take steps to prepare for emergencies in their homes, businesses, schools, and communities.

In observance of this event, IGI Global would like to draw attention to a few premier reference sources in their vast collection of research.

Crisis ManagementCrisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores the latest empirical research and best real-world practices for preventing, weathering, and recovering from disasters. From earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear disasters and cyber terrorism, this extensive multi-volume compilation describes crisis management techniques for a variety of critical scenarios, providing leaders, managers, analysts, and workers with invaluable knowledge on how to recover swiftly from any crisis event.


Crisis Management Another timely resource, Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management, highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates. This comprehensive collection brings together research for practitioners and researchers interested in the uses of information technology in crisis management.



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