Disaster Management Handbook (Public Administration and Public Policy) 1st Edition

Very Informational. Wish it would have been more general, with less of a focus on Katrina. Not all disasters can be related to a hurricane and this book harks on that storm as if it was the only disaster to ever occur in the U.S.

The book is written in very simple manner. It starts from basics and gives a lot of examples. There are many solved and unsolved problems. In addition, there are topics related to multidisciplinary or multi-domain system modelling like thermal, electro-mechanical and pneumatic domains. There is a good coverage of control systems synthesis. A small introduction is given to fault diagnosis.I like the book as a source of reference for our research in rotor dynamics involving beam models, stick-slip friction and rotor vibration analysis.It would have been still better if the later chapters of the book also contained some solved and unsolved problems.