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100	1		_928274 _aGerber, Brian J.
245	1	0	_aLocal government performance and the challenges of regional preparedness for disasters
260			_aArmonk, NY : _bM.E. Sharpe, _cMarch 2009
520	3		_aAs is well known, most emergency incidents are managed by local governments. However, when an incident of disaster-scale occurs, the traditional model of emergency management has certain limitations. Emergency response systems are primarily designed to manage incidents locally, not to facilitate coordination across multiple jurisdictional boundaries. As a result, the threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack and of other regional-scale natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina has led to a policy demand for actual regional coordination in emergency response. In this article, we discuss the local development of regionalism in emergency management and present an approach to assessing the effectiveness of such efforts (i.e., we examine local government conditions conducive to regionalization). We discuss various strategies for assessing the push for regionalism in emergency management, including providing several regional integration performance indicators and an outline of the importance of combining assessment strategies in this area. Our results suggest that local capacity for regionalization, just as in other areas of emergency management, is largely determined by unique local characteristics, thus presenting a challenge to new policy doctrine.
590			_adisasters, emergency management, emergency response, regional coordination
700	1		_938214 _aRobinson, Scott E.
773	0	8	_tPublic Performance & Management Review _g32, 3, p. 345-371 _dArmonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, March 2009 _xISSN 15309576 _w
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998			_a20091109 _b1515^b _cDaiane
998			_a20091110 _b1707^b _cCarolina
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c30720 _d30720
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