Riding the Wave av Andrew Boyarsky

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<P>Emergency managers and public safety professionals are more frequently being called on to address increasingly challenging and complex critical incidents, with a wider variety and intensity of hazards, threats, and community vulnerabilities. Much of the work that falls into the scope of emergency managers ¿ prevention, preparedness, mitigation ¿ is ¿blue sky planning¿ and can be contained and effectively managed within projects. This book provides a foundational project management methodology relevant to emergency management practice, and explains and demonstrates how project management can be applied in the context of emergency and public safety organizations. </P><P>Special features include:</P><UL><LI>an initial focus on risk assessment and identification of mitigation and response planning measures;</LI><LI>a clear set of better practices, using a diverse set of examples relevant to today¿s emergency environment, from projects to develop emergency response exercises to