Assignment:
Reading: Claire B. Rubin Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010
Chapters Three, Four, & Five.
Written Assignment: Provide a reaction paper on the reading material. In approximately 1000 words, discuss the material in detail.
Consider for inclusion in your discussion:
- The 1927 Mississippi flood and the contribution to the theories of response
- The Dust Bowl and the contribution to the theories of mitigation
- The 1947 Texas City explosions and the impact to the law
- Civil Defense and the 1950 Federal Disaster Relief Act
- Intergovernmental relationships in civil defense
- The disaster declaration system and early policy development
- The history of FEMA
- Modern federal mitigation, law, and policy
- Development of the Emergency Management profession
APA Style
Response should be 1000 words with references and quotations.