Title: Decision Making in Disaster Response: Strategies for Frontline Humanitarian Responders
Author: John S. Tipper
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Relief Advisory International
ISBN: 9780473379025 (ISBN-10: 0473379023)
Language: English
Pages: 308
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 2016
Genre: Humanitarian Aid, Emergency Management, Decision Making
Condition: Excellent
Description:
Decision Making in Disaster Response is a practical handbook for relief workers who have to make high-stakes choices under pressure, such as an armed militiaman demanding payment before letting a medical delivery through to a clinic. John Tipper draws on more than fifteen years of frontline humanitarian work in places including Iraq and Jordan and in the wider Middle East and South Sudan. The book uses interactive stories to build the reader’s judgement. It explains the difference between structured, analytical decision making and the fast, experience-based decisions that disasters often demand. It is written for aid workers and students of disaster response, and also for local emergency responders and volunteers, and it is readable enough for anyone curious about international relief work. This copy is in excellent condition.
Title: Decision Making in Disaster Response: Strategies for Frontline Humanitarian Responders
Author: John S. Tipper
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Relief Advisory International
ISBN: 9780473379025 (ISBN-10: 0473379023)
Language: English
Pages: 308
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 2016
Genre: Humanitarian Aid, Emergency Management, Decision Making
Condition: Excellent
Description:
Decision Making in Disaster Response is a practical handbook for relief workers who have to make high-stakes choices under pressure, such as an armed militiaman demanding payment before letting a medical delivery through to a clinic. John Tipper draws on more than fifteen years of frontline humanitarian work in places including Iraq and Jordan and in the wider Middle East and South Sudan. The book uses interactive stories to build the reader’s judgement. It explains the difference between structured, analytical decision making and the fast, experience-based decisions that disasters often demand. It is written for aid workers and students of disaster response, and also for local emergency responders and volunteers, and it is readable enough for anyone curious about international relief work. This copy is in excellent condition.
