Disaster Management

Kelman, Steven.

1996 Disaster Management. Journal of Public Administration. 16.

In his "Disaster Management" (2006), Steven Kelman explores how intellectual minds have finally begun to take part in organizing their own styles of disaster management. After the NASA Colombia Disaster was re-examined in a 2003 collection of essays, it is now proven to be necessary to have leading scholars partake in disaster management strategies and also criticisms. Kelman gives an example of the scholars involved in this 2003 work, which completely changed the face of normal public administration strategies for disaster management. Kelman also expresses his interest to keep this trend going, and include more academic minds in the involvement of strategizing how to deal with catastrophes. Kelman writes to business and academic professionals as a way to call them to do their part in formulating better disaster plans.

Howard, Melissa M., Buck, Richard a.

2002 World Trade Center Recovery: A Challenge to Traditional Disaster Management. The Public Manager. 31.

In "World Trade Center Recovery: A Challenge't Traditional Disaster Management" (2002), Melissa M. Howard and Richard a. Buck describe how the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York was such an unexpected catastrophe, that normal forms of recovery plans are not equip to fully dealing with the situation. Because of the massive monetary cost of the horrible event was much more than the federal Disaster Fund through FEMA could imagine. Also, the president decided that the federal government would recovery 100% of the damage, rather than the standard 75%. The authors want to show how inefficient even this nation's best laid plans are, and show how the federal government needs to be more flexible and creative with their solutions for disaster management. They are writing to the educated and active portion of the public, who would then try to take action to change disaster relief policies within the U.S. government.