The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook : The Definitive Guide for Law Enforcement, EMT, and All Other Security Professionals

The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook : The Definitive Guide for Law Enforcement, EMT, and All Other Security Professionals
Author: David G. Kamien
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 1256
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book provides first responders, security professionals, and students with a fundamental and definitive overview of critical homeland security issues. It features a review and assessment of homeland security risks, along with insights, strategies, and practical advice for working successfully in the new threat environment. Individual chapters cover : terrorist tactics, intra-government coordination of information, behavioral pattern recognition, aviation and cargo security, new rules for securing cyberspace, roles of media and private individuals, and more.

McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook: Strategic Guidance for a Coordinated Approach to Effective Security and Emergency Management, Second Edition

McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook: Strategic Guidance for a Coordinated Approach to Effective Security and Emergency Management, Second Edition
Author: David Kamien
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 1473
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071790853

Featuring a foreword by Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security, The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook, 2e is the one-stop guide for any professional or student involved in counterterrorism, homeland security, business continuity, or disaster risk management. This indispensable book provides government officials, corporate risk managers, business and security executives, first responders, and all homeland security and emergency prepared-ness professionals with a wide-ranging and definitive overview of critical homeland security issues. The handbook addresses virtually every aspect of homeland security, including terrorism motivated by radical Islamist extremism; transportation and infrastructure protection; community and business resilience; intelligence and information; and the roles of business, academia, science, and the private sector in confronting terrorism and natural disasters. Enriched with the insight and knowledge of renowned national and international experts—from senators and captains of industry to key figures in intelligence, military affairs, diplomacy, international organizations, and academia—this peerless guide offers prescriptive strategies and guidance to help security professionals more effectively manage the risk of terrorism and prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Conveniently organized into thematic sections, The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook covers: Terrorist and Criminal Threats Policy, Governance, and Legal Responses Interoperability, Information Sharing, and Collaboration Risk Management, Decision Making, and Communication Protecting Critical Infrastructure Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management Private Sector Security and Resilience Thinking, Education, and Training Science and Technology Civil Liberties and Other Legal Issues International Challenges and Approaches The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook synthesizes the latest information with unmatched scope and detail and discusses what governments, businesses, and citizens must do to manage the risk of disasters and counter evolving threats.

The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook

The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook
Author: David Kamien
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 1249
Release: 2005-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071785620

More than $3 billion is spent annually on homeland security. New threats and vulnerabilities are identified on virtually a daily basis. The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook provides first responders, security professionals, and students with a fundamental and definitive overview of critical homeland security issues. This first all-in-one reference features review and assessment of myriad homeland security risks, along with insights, strategies, and practical advice for working successfully in the new threat environment. A team of more than 70 experts supplies chapters covering terrorist tactics, intra-government coordination of information, behavioral pattern recognition, aviation and maritime passenger and cargo security, new rules for securing cyberspace, roles of media and private individuals, and more. Homeland security is the fastest-growing training market in the United States The Handbook has a large and immediate built-in market, from law enforcement EMT, and fire departments to security professionals and students The United States has more than four million professionals classified as first responders

Infoglut

Infoglut
Author: Mark Andrejevic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1135119511

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts," and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"—making sense of their own patterns so we don’t have to. Neuromarketers and body language experts promise to peer behind people’s words to see what their brains are really thinking and feeling. New forms of information processing promise to displace the need for expertise and even comprehension—at least for those with access to the data. Infoglut explores the connections between these wide-ranging sense-making strategies for an era of information overload and "big data," and the new forms of control they enable. Andrejevic critiques the popular embrace of deconstructive debunkery, calling into question the post-truth, post-narrative, and post-comprehension politics it underwrites, and tracing a way beyond them.

Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security

Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security
Author: James D. Ramsay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429535562

This new textbook outlines the main theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines that support homeland security operations, structures and strategies. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, "homeland security" (HLS) grew in importance within the U.S. government (and around the world) and matured from a concept discussed among a relatively small cadre of policymakers and strategic thinkers to a broadly discussed issue in Congress and society with a growing academic presence. Yet the ability to discern a theory of homeland security that would support overall security strategy has been more elusive to both scholars and policymakers. This textbook aims to elucidate a grand theory of homeland security by leveraging the theoretical underpinnings of the disciplines that comprise the strategies, operations and structures of the HLS enterprise. In this way, each chapter contributes to a grand theory of homeland security as it explores a different discipline that influences or supports a domain of the homeland security enterprise. These chapters cover intelligence systems, terrorism origins and ideologies, emergency management, environmental and human security, cybersecurity policy, crime and security, global governance, risk management, public health, law and policy, technology, interagency collaboration and the sociology of security. This book will be essential reading for students of Homeland Security and Emergency Response, and recommended reading for students of terrorism, intelligence, cybersecurity, risk management and national security.

Homeland Security at the State Level

Homeland Security at the State Level
Author: Dick Cañas
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1477260811

Have you harbored questions about what Homeland Security is and how it affects you at the hometown level? This book is directed at the general audience, not necessarily the homeland security professional. A simple Question & Answer format is used to supplement understanding of concepts and terminologies and answer rudimentary questions as posed by an interested, yet casually informed, public. Basic questions about: ? The Role of Individual State Homeland Security Agencies ? Information Sharing Programs ? Risk-based Management ? Public/private Partnerships ? Fusion Centers ? Emergency Operating Centers ? The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ? Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources ? Grant Programs ? Preparedness and Prevention Programs ? Public Awareness ? Legal Issues ? The Role of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) The content also focuses on the relationships required of comprehensive and individual STATE homeland security programs a relationship that encompasses state and local governments, the private sector, and the public at large.

Homeland Security Threats, Countermeasures, and Privacy Issues

Homeland Security Threats, Countermeasures, and Privacy Issues
Author: Giorgio Franceschetti
Publisher: Artech House
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1608071065

This timely book offers you a solid understanding of the critical facets of homeland security, including threats, countermeasures, and privacy. You find important discussions on how to overcome challenges in today's information systems and how to analyze emerging phenomena in large complex systems. The book offers detailed guidance on the model-based design of trustworthy health information systems. Moreover, you get an in-depth overview of the detection, identification, and track of dangerous materials. This comprehensive resource also explores urban defense using mobile sensor platforms, focusing on both surveillance and protection. Supported with nearly 100 illustrations, Homeland Security Facets includes detailed case studies and real-world examples.

Globalization

Globalization
Author: Meshack M. Sagini
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0761859535

Globalization: The Paradox of Organizational Behavior is an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate students, professors, policy makers, and the intelligentsia worldwide. Sagini explores the text's major themes using historical, materialistic, and imperialistic factors. The globalization movement is shaped by economic, political, technological, and cultural forces that transform human collectivities. Instability and related concomitant issues such as disease, energy security, and terrorism challenge the reconstructive role of internal and external factors in foreign policy decision-making. The implications of the global forces on the divided world of gated communities, urban and village ghettos, national borders, and cultural decay could be far-reaching if leaders fail to redesign and implement effective governance models.

The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism

The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism
Author: Gary LaFree
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118923952

The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism features a collection of essays that represent the most recent criminological research relating to the origins and evolution of, along with responses to, terrorism, from a criminological perspective. Offers an authoritative overview of the latest criminological research into the causes of and responses to terrorism in today’s world Covers broad themes that include terrorism’s origins, theories, methodologies, types, relationship to other forms of crime, terrorism and the criminal justice system, ways to counter terrorism, and more Features original contributions from a group of international experts in the field Provides unique insights into the field through an exclusive focus on criminological conceptual frameworks and empirical studies that engage terrorism and responses to it

America's Great Storm

America's Great Storm
Author: Haley Barbour
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2015-08-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1496805070

When Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005, it unleashed the costliest natural disaster in American history, and the third deadliest. Haley Barbour had been Mississippi's governor for only twenty months when he assumed responsibility for guiding his pummeled, stricken state's recovery and rebuilding efforts. America's Great Storm is not only a personal memoir of his role in that recovery, but also a sifting of the many lessons he learned about leadership in a time of massive crisis. For the book, the authors interviewed more than forty-five key people involved in helping Mississippi recover, including local, state, and federal officials as well as private citizens who played pivotal roles in the weeks and months following Katrina's landfall. In addition to covering in detail the events of September and October 2005, chapters focus on the special legislative session that allowed casinos to build on shore; the role of the recovery commission chaired by Jim Barksdale; a behind-the-scenes description of working with Congress to pass an unprecedented, multi-billion-dollar emergency disaster assistance appropriation; and the enormous roles played by volunteers in rebuilding the entire housing, transportation, and education infrastructure of South Mississippi and the Gulf Coast. A final chapter analyzes the leadership skills and strategies Barbour employed on behalf of the people of his state, observations that will be valuable to anyone tasked with managing in a crisis.