Articles

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Review of Disaster Policy and Politics: Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2009)
 

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Review of The Storm by Ivor van Heerden, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2009)

A review of The Storm by Ivor van Heerden and Mike Bryan. New York, Viking,...

 

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Review of Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2009)

Book Review of Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government, by Thomas...

 
Disaster Research and Social Network Analysis: Examples of the Scientific Understanding of Human Dynamics at the National Science Foundation (with Larry Suter and Raima Larter), Population Research and Policy Review (2009)

How can knowledge about human behavior be accumulated effectively? How does the funding agency best...

 
Disasters, Catastrophes, and Policy Failure in the Homeland Security Era., Review of Policy Research (2009)

The September 11 attacks triggered federal policy changes designed to influence emergency management in the...

 
Disasters, Lessons Learned, and Fantasy Documents, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (2009)

This article develops a general theory of why post-disaster ‘lessons learned’ documents are often ‘fantasy...

 
Media Framing and Policy Change after Columbine (with Regina G. Lawrence), American Behavioral Scientist (2009)

The 1999 Columbine school shooting incident in Colorado gained far more media attention across a...

 
Is Federalism the Reason for Policy Failure in Hurricane Katrina? (with Sarah Waterman), Publius (2008)

Governmental responses to Hurricane Katrina are generally cited as policy failures. Media and popular analyses...

 

Books

Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events (2006)

Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the...