Showing posts with label EM/HS/FEMA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EM/HS/FEMA. Show all posts

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Research Materials--Oddball URLs

From time to time I add to my collection of somewhat oddball URLs that I find myself searching for to refresh my memory. Thanks to Steve Aftergood at FAS [Federation of American Scientists] for help in scanning an posting many of these.

Anyhow here is latest roundup of stray URLs:

VLG Technical Note-Common Use URLs-

  1. Trefry Report—http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/trefry.pdf
  2. NAPB-90—http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/napb-90/index.html
  3. Argonne Chron--- http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/fema/chron.pdf
  4. NSDDs—http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/index.html
  5. CRS On EO 12657—http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/fema-nuke.pdf
  6. FEMA 2000 Transition Book submission for Presidential Transition Team from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama as President-- http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/fema/transition2009.pdf
  7. 1962 National Emergency Study of authority extract--http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/fedlaw.pdf
  8. Historical Materials scanned by FAS--http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/fema/index.html
  9.  December 1985 AG Letter--http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/fema/ag121385.pdf
  10.  June 85 AG letter-- http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/fema/doj-comments.pdf
  11. A Concept of Homeland Security--http://www.vacationlanegrp.com/pdf/concept_hls.pdf
  12. CIVIL DEFENSE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY (1948)-- http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/fema/civildef-1948.pdf

Monday, September 20, 2010

A Concept of Homeland Security

With the 9th Anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001, many blogs and articles have tried to define the term "Homeland Security"! Personally I believe the term "Homeland" is the wrong paradigm and in fact "civil security" should be the paradigm. What has happened is that civil institutions bearing the brunt of the focus of Homeland Security, specifically the Public Safety arena with its first responders, and EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT theorists have tried to make the Homeland Security discipline an "all-hazards" discipline. That effort has not really led to all-hazard preparedness, resilience, prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery but instead compartmented programs, functions and activities that are premised on command and control relationships rather than cooperation and collaboration. Trying to visualize this spectrum I designed and offered one possible set of relationships that a number of academics have used in their course work. Thus, the concept of Homeland Security which is set forth below:
A Concept of Homeland Security Functions