Principles of Emergency Planning and Management

David Alexander teaches emergency planning and management and has research interests in this field, as well as earthquake disaster analysis. His books include 'Natural Disasters', 'Confronting Catastrophe' and 'Principles of Emergency Planning and Management'. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Co-Editor of Disasters journal, and is a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.

• Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Aims, purpose and scope of emergency planning; 2 Methodology: making and using maps; 3 Methodology: analytical techniques; 4 The emergency plan and its activation; 5 The plan in practice: emergency management; 6 Specialized planning; 7 Reconstructive planning; 8 Emergency-management training; 9 Concluding thoughts. Glossary. Bibliography. Index