Liza Ireni Saban 
Disaster Emergency Management [EPUB ebook] 
The Emergence of Professional Help Services for Victims of Natural Disasters

Survival in times of disaster is a question of utmost importance to both the victims of those events and to the professionals and people in authority who are there to serve them. In
Disaster Emergency Management, Liza Ireni Saban examines what leads some nations, communities, and individuals to rise to the occasion during these times of trauma, while others do not. Utilizing case studies of China, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States, she focuses in particular on the dilemma faced by local emergency officials who, rather than elected officials, find themselves ‘on the front lines, ‘ suddenly confronted with complex public problems. Recent studies have pointed to a breakdown of government and bureaucratic decision making in the face of intense crisis situations. Saban demonstrates the inadequacies of grappling with what are in truth contested ethical issues within a framework whose approach is technical-rational. She draws on communitarian ethics to redefine the role of the bureaucrat so that community resilience, through attention to local values and needs, is fostered prior to the actual crisis.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction



1. Introduction to Disaster Management



2. Defining Disaster Vulnerability



3. Vulnerability Assessment of Disaster Management Doctrines



4. Applying Communitarian Social Justice in Public Administration Ethics



5. Walzer’s Communitarianism in the Service of Disaster Resilience and Doctrine



6. Comparative Analysis of Community-Based Disaster Resilience Policies



7. Administration and Community Collaboration in Disaster Management



Notes

References

Index

About the author

Liza Ireni Saban is Senior Lecturer in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. She is the coauthor (with Alberto Spektorowski) of
Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and National Welfare.