The State of Emergency Management 2000: The Process of Emergency Management Professionalizaiton in the United States and Florida - Couverture souple

Wilson, Jennifer L

 
9781581121230: The State of Emergency Management 2000: The Process of Emergency Management Professionalizaiton in the United States and Florida
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ISBN 10 : 1581121237 ISBN 13 : 9781581121230
Editeur : Dissertation.com, 2000

Synopsis

This dissertation analyzes the current status of emergency management professionalization in the United States and Florida using a qualitative case study. I investigate the efforts of various organizations at the national and state levels in the private and public sectors to organize emergency management as a profession. I conceptualize emergency management professionalization as occurring in two phases: the indirect institutionalization of the occupation of emergency management and the formal advancement toward an emergency management profession. The legislative, organizational, and procedural developments that occurred between approximately 1900 and the late 1970s became the indirect institutionalization of the occupation of emergency management. Over time, as our society developed and became increasingly complex, more disasters affect the security of the population. In order to adapt to increasing risks and vulnerabilities the emergency management system emerged and with it the necessary elements upon which a future profession could be established providing the basis for the formal advancement toward an emergency management profession. The purpose of this research is to provide a frame of reference for whether or not the field of emergency management is a profession. Based on sociology of professions literature, emergency management can be considered to be professionalizing. The current emergency management professionalization efforts may or may not be sufficient to achieve the ultimate goal of becoming a legitimate profession based on legal and public support for the exclusive right to perform emergency management tasks (monopoly) as well as self-regulation of those tasks (autonomy).

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Éditeur
Dissertation.com
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1581121237
ISBN 13 
9781581121230
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
372
Coordonnées du fabricant
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