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Machine generated contents note: PREFACE vii -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix -- INTRODUCTION xi -- SECTION I: TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS -- CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND FOR NEW DISASTERS 3 -- SECTION I1: GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISASTER RESPONSE -- 2 HISTORY OF DISASTER PLANNING 11 -- 3 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN DISASTER PLANNING 15 -- 4 VICTIMOLOGY 23 -- 5 DISASTER CYCLES 27 -- 6 PREDICTING DISASTER AND EMERGENCY PLANNING 33 -- 7 PRIVATE SECTOR 49 -- 8 WHEN DISASTER STRIKES 53 -- 9 USING THE MILITARY 61 -- 10 TRAINING 65 -- 11 WARNING AND EVACUATION 69 -- 12 SEARCH AND RESCUE 77 -- 13 DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS 83 -- 14 INFORMATION CENTERS 87 -- 15 TERRORISM AND CRIMINALITY 89 -- SECTION II1: TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF A RESPONSE -- 16 COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 97 -- 17 MEDICAL RESPONSE 99 -- 18 POLICE OPERATIONS 111 -- 19 FIRE 131 -- 20 FORENSIC SCIENCE 141 -- 21 VOLUNTEERISM 173 -- 22 PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND MENTAL HEALTH 183 -- 23 MEDIA AND INFORMATION 197 -- SECTION IV MANAGEMENT ISSUES -- 24 BUSINESS RECOVERY 215 -- SECTION V: RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS -- 25 AVIATION 223 -- 26 DISASTER AT SEA 247 -- 27 LAND TRANSPORTATION 253 -- SECTION VI: CONCLUSION -- 28 CONCLUSION 261

Introduction: Questions and Methods for a Study of Student Culture -- 1. Historical Contexts: The Adolescent, the Nation, and the Secundaria, 1923-1993 -- 2. Ethnographic Beginnings: A City, a School, an Anthropologist -- 3. Institutional Contexts: The School Students Encountered -- 4. Somos Muy Unidos : The Production of Student Culture in the Grupo Escolar -- 5. Sites of Social Difference and the Production of Schooled Identity -- 6. Friendship Groups, Youth Culture, and the Limits of Solidarity -- 7. Political Economic Change, Life Trajectories, and Identity Formation, 1988-1998 -- 8. Games Are Serious: Reflections on Equality and Mexican Secondary Student Culture -- Appendix A. Structure, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Elements of Practice -- Appendix B. Focal Student Profiles.

Levinson analyses and applies contemporary liberal political theory to certain key problems within the field of educational theory, centred around determining appropriate educational aims content and institutional structure.

An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading