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Publisher
[Governor's Office of Homeland Security]
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Colorado's comprehensive State Homeland Security Strategy outlines the direction for our prevention, protection, response and recovery efforts for the next five years (2008-2013). This is a complex endeavor which requires shared responsibility by all partners. In addition, it requires coordination, cooperation, and focused effort from the entire state and its many local, regional, tribal, non-profit, private sector, and federal partners and every...
Publisher
[Colorado Department of Local Affairs]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This document provides state and local officials with the means to develop interlocking and mutually supporting emergency preparedness programs. It is a guide to the on-going efforts fostering interagency collaboration and decision-making.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead. When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why? Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house, bin Laden had seen an historic opportunity: "The next stage will be the return of the caliphate." In the six years since bin Laden's death, al-Qaeda's affiliates...
30) Emergency management in the 21st century: dealing with Al Qaeda, Tom Ridge, and Julie Gerberding
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 108
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
For the emergency management community, the incredible events of September 11, 2001, and their many outcomes have led to changes so extensive they are hard to document. A gross indication of the impacts of these changes is evidenced simply by counting the important legislative and bureaucratic changes that have occurred since September 11, 2001. Along with new threats have come new resources, and those resources have new requirements connected to...
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 148
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the social and organizational processes at work in the management of the mass casualties and victim identification following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers (WTCT) with a special emphasis on how the unique circumstances of this disaster affected victim recovery and the identification processes.
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 150
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Based on the interviews conducted, it is felt that considerable effort needs to be accomplished in the theoretical area of terrorist's attacks to better explain the human dimensions. The long-term objective of this research is to better understand the risk communication model dynamics that occur in such an event.
34) Public/private collaboration in disaster: implications from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 155
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This paper discusses the important role of the private sector in emergency management and explores the interaction of businesses with government agencies during times of disaster.
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 144
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This research project is exploratory and focuses on the motivations, observations, behaviors, and changes experienced by spontaneous volunteers responding to the World Trade Center attacks.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake 'Mustafa Bayoumi' was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an 'anti-American, pro-Islam' agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far...
37) Rumsfeld's war
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
With the United States Army deployed in a dozen hotspots around the world, on constant alert in Afghanistan, and taking casualties every day in Iraq, some current and former officers now say the army is on the verge of being "broken." The program digs into the aggressive attempts to assert civilian control and remake the military by the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his allies.