A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management

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A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management is written by Bruce Oliver Newsome and published by SAGE Publications. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1506330827 (ISBN 10) and 9781506330822 (ISBN 13).

A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management: From Home to Abroad offers a comprehensive overview of the homeland security field, examining topics such as counter-terrorism, border and infrastructure security, and emergency management. Authors Bruce Newsome and Jack Jarmon take a holistic look at the issues and risks, their solutions, controls, and countermeasures, and their political and policy implications. They also demonstrate through cases and vignettes how various authorities, policymakers and practitioners seek to improve homeland security. The authors evaluate the current practices and policies of homeland security and emergency management and provide readers with the analytical framework and skills necessary to improve these practices and policies.