Brenda Phillips

co-author of Introduction to Emergency Mangaement and Social Vulnerability to Disasters

February 4, 2012

Brenda Phillips is a Professor in the Fire and Emergency Management Program and a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events at Oklahoma State University. Professor Phillips has conducted research on disaster vulnerability since 1982. She is the co-author of Introduction to Emergency Management, the author of Disaster Recovery, and the lead editor of Social Vulnerability to Disaster. In 2009, she served as the lead researcher for a National Council on Disability project titled Effective Emergency Management: making improvements for communities and people with disabilities. In 2010, she received the Mary Fran Myers Award from the Gender and Disaster Network.

Few texts in emergency management engage readers in real life, real world case examples like this text. Designed to attract and guide those interested in career and volunteer opportunities, the authors integrate scientific findings with practitioner viewpoints to reveal the excitement and challenge of a field in service of communities and people at risk from disasters. Each chapter features real people working in the field, the majority of whom have graduated from programs where the authors have taught.

Each chapter invites students into the practice of emergency management by explaining the field and the opportunities for work and service in disaster preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation and humanitarian relief. Contributors from around the world bring content to life by offering their experience and guidance. Current examples, coupled with studies of classic events, focus readers on pivotal turning events such as nuclear accidents from Three Mile Island to Fukushima.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2012-honorees/brenda-phillips

Last Updated: 21 December 2015