Format:
Online Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780124158030
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012415803X
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0124158684
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9780124158689
Content:
Homeland Security: The Essentials sets a new standard for security textbooks, concisely outlining the risks facing the US today and the structures we have put in place to deal with them. The authors expertly delineate the bedrock principles of preparing for, mitigating, managing, and recovering from emergencies and disasters. From cyber warfare to devastating tornados to car bombs, all hazards currently fall within the purview of the Department of Homeland Security. Yet the federal role must be closely aligned with the work of partners in the private sector, and the authors examine the challenges involved in these collaborative efforts. Homeland Security: The Essentials lays a solid foundation for the study of present and future threats to our communities and to national security, and challenges readers to imagine more effective ways to manage these risks. As with Bullock's other textbooks, the text contains ample full-color illustrations, but in a streamlined and affordable paperback format
Note:
Description based on title from publisher's website; (ScienceDirect; viewed on Sept. 4, 2012)
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Front Cover; Homeland Security: The Essentials; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Homeland Security: The Concept, the Organization; What You Will Learn; Introduction; A New Concept of Homeland Security; The Department of Homeland Security; Other Federal Departments Responsible for the Homeland Security Enterprise; Conclusion; Key Terms; Review Questions; References; 2. Historic Overview of the Terrorist Threat; What You Will Learn; Introduction; Before It Was Called Homeland Security: From the 1800s to the Creation of FEMA; World Trade Center Bombing
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Murrah Federal Building BombingKhobar Towers Bombing, Saudi Arabia; The Three Commissions; Presidential Decision Directives 62 and 63; Attorney General's Five-Year Interagency Counterterrorism and Technology Crime Plan; USS Cole Bombing, Yemen; September 11 Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; The Creation of the Department of Homeland Security: 2001-2004; Homeland Security Focus on Terrorism Results in a Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath; Obama Administration; Conclusion; Key Terms; References; 3. Hazards; What You Will Learn; Introduction; The Hazards
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Natural HazardsFloods; Earthquakes; Hurricanes; Storm Surges; Tornadoes; Wildfires; Mass Movements; Tsunamis; Volcanic Eruptions; Severe Winter Storms; Drought; Extreme Temperatures; Thunderstorms; Hail; Technological Hazards; Structural Fires; Transportation Accidents; Infrastructure Failures; Dam Failures; Hazardous Materials Incidents; Nuclear Accidents; Terrorism Hazards; Conventional Explosives and Secondary Devices; Chemical Agents; Biological Agents; Nuclear/Radiological; Combined Hazards; Other Armed Attacks Using Firearms or Other Tactics
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Difficulty of Predicting Terror Attacks in the United StatesConclusion; Key Terms; Review Questions; References; 4. Governmental Homeland Security Structures; What You Will Learn; Introduction; Department of Homeland Security Organizational Chart; The Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security; Preexisting Offices Moved into DHS in 2002; The U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Secret Service; Federal Emergency Management Agency; Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; Transportation Security Administration (TSA); New Offices and Directorates; Directorate for National Protection and Programs
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Directorate for Science and TechnologyDirectorate for Management; Office of the Inspector General; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; United States Customs and Border Protection; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Office of Policy; Office of Health Affairs; Offices of Intelligence and Analysis and Operations Coordination; Domestic Nuclear Detection Office; Agency Reorganization; Secretary Chertoff's DHS Reorganization Plan; The Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act; DHS Budget; Other Agencies Participating in Community-Level Funding
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The White House (the Executive Office of the President)
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Homeland Security: The Essentials sets a new standard for security textbooks, concisely outlining the risks facing the US today and the structures we have put in place to deal with them. The authors expertly delineate the bedrock principles of preparing for, mitigating, managing, and recovering from emergencies and disasters. From cyber warfare to devastating tornados to car bombs, all hazards currently fall within the purview of the Department of Homeland Security. Yet the federal role must be closely aligned with the work of partners in the private sector, and the authors examine the challenges involved in these collaborative efforts. Homeland Security: The Essentials lays a solid foundation for the study of present and future threats to our communities and to national security, and challenges readers to imagine more effective ways to manage these risks. As with Bullock's other textbooks, the text contains ample full-color illustrations, but in a streamlined and affordable paperback format
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780124158030
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bullock, Jane A Homeland security Waltham, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2013
Language:
English
Keywords:
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