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Item Adoption of Hazard Adjustments by Large and Small Organizations: Who is Doing the Talking and Who is Doing the Walking?(Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2011-10) Sadiq, Abdul-AkeemEnvironmental hazards pose a considerable and genuine threat to the survival of organizations. However, organizations can increase their likelihood of survival by adopting various hazard adjustments. Prior studies on hazard adjustments have found a positive relationship between the adoption of hazard adjustments and organization size. However, no study on hazard adjustments has grouped hazard adjustments into active and passive and studied the relationship between active and passive hazard adjustments and organization size. The author investigates whether large organizations adopt more active and passive hazard adjustments than small organizations, using data from a survey of 227 organizations in Memphis, Tennessee. The results show that large organizations adopt more active and passive hazard adjustments than small organizations and both large and small organizations engage in different types of hazard adjustments.Item Homeland Security, Emergency Management and Public Administration: Travels Across the Safety, Security and Academic Spectrum(2008-09) Foley, William A., Jr.This continues a brief examination of what homeland security is and also a quick look at how it works on a national scale. Where it is located on a spectrum of studies and subjects involved in United States safety and security is also examined as is a look at homeland as an emerging discipline. Lastly, where it should reside in the academy is discussed and what kinds of programs it should offer are described. Additionally a model is provided to show how to establish a homeland security program and why homeland security as a subject is of great merit to the national discussion of the twenty-first century and her values.