Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management -- New Articles

bepress Journals

July 28, 2009

Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the following new articles recently published in Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Research Articles Local Emergency Management Funding: An Evaluation of County Budgets Skip Krueger, Eliot Jennings, and James M. Kendra Do State Written Pandemic Plans Include Federal Recommendations? A National Study Tamar A. Klaiman, Jennifer Ibrahim, and Alice Hausman Interorganizational Coordination in Complex Environments of Disasters: The Evolution of Intergovernmental Disaster Response Systems Naim Kapucu Evacuation Decision Support System for Road Incident Detection and Characterization Gary P. Moynihan, Daniel J. Fonseca, Terry Brumback, and Huston Fernandes Book Reviews Review of The Phoenix of Natural Disasters: Community Resilience Kathleen M. Kowalski-Trakofler Opinions Long Term Recovery from Disasters -- The Neglected Component of Emergency Management Claire B. Rubin Featured Article "Disaster Management: The Structure, Function, and Significance of Network-Centric Operations", reveals how poor information flow both within and among the organizations/agencies involved in the preparation for, and management of, disasters is among the principal source of failures whose cost often reaches millions of dollars and thousands of unnecessarily lost lives. The authors show how the use of a network-centric approach to disaster management has several advantages in handling information/knowledge and tasks associated with complex, multi-domain operations. About this journal Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (JHSEM) is the primary source of new, peer-reviewed research and information in the fields of homeland security and emergency management. JHSEM features original, innovative, and timely articles and other information on research and practice from a broad array of professions including: emergency management, engineering, political science, public policy, decision science, and health and medicine. The electronic nature of the journal allows timeliness and responsiveness unparalleled among academic publications. JHSEM publishes peer-reviewed articles, news and communiqués from researchers and practitioners, and book/media reviews. The lead editors are John R. Harrald, Research Professor at the Virginia Tech Center for Technology, Security, and Policy; Claire B. Rubin, President of Claire B. Rubin & Associates, in Arlington, VA; and Jane Kushma, Associate Professor, Jacksonville State University. Authors have included prominent researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Environmental Protection Agency, George Mason University, George Washington University, RAND, and Vanderbilt University. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Health and Safety Sciences, IBSS, Intute, PAIS International, Risk Abstracts, Scopus, Social Science Citation Index (Thomson/ISI), Sociological Abstracts, Technology Research Database (CSA), and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

---