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CIVIL CARE & SECURITY STUDIES

We live in changing times.

Read any newspaper. View any network television news program. Search across the internet. Talk to your neighbours. It is likely that amongst the different topics discussed these days you will become involved in topics that involve risk and hazard.

Civil Care and Security Studies is a book to assist us in these challenging times. Presented in five cohering sections it covers the following:

Introduction: Rod Gerber and John Salter

Part A: Civil Care and Security in Context

1. Rights, Responsibilities, and Realities: A Societal View of Civil Care and Security
Ilan Kellman
2. Social Vulnerability: Perspectives on Risks and Disasters
Ken Hewitt
3. Isn’t It All Politics? The politics of policy formation
Ben Wisner

Part B: Assessment and Analysis: Identification of what to do in Prevention and Mitigation

4. Research and Information Exchange: How Do Civil Care and Security Organisations Learn?
Thomas Mitchell
5. Planning for Civil Care and Security
David Hartley
6. Emergency Planning Capability Assessment
John Salter

Part C: Planning for Civil Care and Security

7. Competency-Based Security Education
Paul Yung
8. Practical leadership
Bob Huby
9. Smart Teams for Civil Care and Security
Rod Gerber

Part D: Response and Operations Management

10. Communications and Information Management
John Weiland
11. Conflict Resolution
Stephen Hooper

Part E: Recovery and Post-Impact

12. Recovery from Emergencies: Social and Personal Dimensions
Rob Gordon
13. The changing face of peacekeeping
Rebecca Spence & Diana Iribarmegaray
14. Recovery
Philip Buckle
Conclusion: John Handmer

BOOK INFORMATION

Author(s): Rod Gerber & John Salter
ISBN: 0908244622
Year: 2005
Pages: 434

Price: A$45.00

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