**February 22, 2007 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Report**

\(1\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT JOB \-- SEEKING CANDIDATE WITH COLLEGIATE EM
CREDENTIALS:

Pasted in below, from the Boulder Hazards Center \"Disaster Researcher\"

Newsletter, is a job announcement, noted herein because it seeks, as
\"an ideal candidate\" someone who \"possesses a four year college or
university degree with major course work in emergency management\...\"
Such language in position descriptions are becoming more and more
common.

\[\"Director of Emergency Management \-- Broward County, Florida

THE COMMUNITY: Broward County is located at the center of the Southeast
Florida \'Gold Coast\', between Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties.
Broward County has a population of 1.8 million citizens. With 23 miles
of Atlantic Ocean beach, Broward County encompasses over 1,197 square
miles. The County is bounded on the west by Florida\'s famed Everglades
(which occupy over two-thirds of the territory) and has over 300 miles
of navigable waterways. Approximately 30 municipalities are part of the
County.

THE AGENCY: Broward County\'s Emergency Management Agency is responsible
for the management of all emergency preparedness program areas within
the County. The primary role of the Agency is to develop and implement
comprehensive disaster and homeland security planning, mitigation, and
response activities within Broward County under the provisions of
Florida statutes. The Agency also develops and maintains emergency plans
for all types of natural and technological hazards and provides the
analysis and recommendations necessary to make decisions that will
effectively save lives and protect property in such emergencies.

The Emergency Management Agency is housed in a secured, state-of-the-art
Emergency Operations Center in central Broward County with technological
resources for the coordination of innumerable federal, state, and local
agencies, the Red Cross, other emergency response agencies, and Broward
County internal agencies such as Mass Transit and Human Services. This
coordination is critical to providing the resources necessary to prepare
for, and respond to, emergency situations, including meeting the needs
of Broward County\'s special needs population.

The Emergency Management Agency\'s operations also include emergency
training exercises, protocol review and revision, and emergency related
grant writing and administration. Nineteen staff members are dedicated
to the mission of this agency.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE: The ideal candidate will possess a four year
college or university degree with major course work in emergency
management or related field and experience at the director level (or
assistant director of a large agency) in emergency planning and
management including considerable high level supervisory and
administrative experience. FPEM or CEM certification is highly
desirable.

COMPENSATION: The salary range for this position is \$89,813 - \$147,293
with starting salary dependent upon qualifications. Broward County also
offers a comprehensive array of fringe benefits.

CONTACT: All resumes must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday,
March 16, 2007. Information must be clearly documented on the resume.
Submit to:

Staffing Manager, Broward County Human Resources Division, 115 South
Andrews Avenue, Annex B, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301, or e-mail to
jmcgahee@broward.org. Phone: 954-357-6020.\"\]

\(2\) RISK AND MITIGATION:

World Economic Forum. Global Risks 2007: A Global Risk Network Report.

Geneva, Switzerland, WEF, January 2007, 34 pages. At:

[[http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/globalrisk/index.htm]{.underline}](http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/globalrisk/index.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"At the core of this year\'s overview of risks to the global
community over the next decade is a fundamental disconnect between risk
and mitigation. Expert opinion suggests that levels of risk are rising
in almost all of the 23 risks on which the Global Risk Network has been
focused over the last year \-- but mechanisms in place to manage and
mitigate risk at the level of businesses, governments and global
governance are inadequate\....\"

Amongst the 22 \"Core\" Global Risks tracked by the Global Risk Network
are the following 10:

Climate change

Loss of freshwater services

Natural catastrophe: Tropical storms

Natural catastrophe: Earthquakes

Natural catastrophe: Inland flooding

International terrorism

Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction Pandemics Breakdown of
critical information infrastructure Emergence of risks associated with
nanotechnology

BWB Note: See chart on p. 8 ranking global risk Economic Loss by
severity and likelihood. The bottom three from the listing above for
\"severity\" are: Proliferation of WMD, Nanotechnology, International
terrorism. Chart on P. 9 does the same for Death. Bottom four for
\"severity\" are International terrorism, nanotechnology, Breakdown of
CII, Proliferation of WMD.

Pages 10-12 include a \"barometer\" indicating increased overall risk,
stable overall risk, decreased overall risk, and expert disagreement.
From the listing above, the increased risk areas are: climate change,
loss of freshwater services, natural catastrophe (tropical storms),
natural catastrophe (inland flooding), international terrorism, and
proliferation of WMD. Static risk categories: natural catastrophe
(earthquake), pandemics, breakdown of critical information
infrastructure, emergence of risks associated with nanotechnology.

Contains interesting scenario narratives on a pandemic, global warming,
and oil shock.

\"Global Risks 2007 suggests two possible institutional innovations that
may help mobilize businesses and governments to approach the global
risks of the next 10 years. One is the idea of a Country Risk Officer
\-- an analog to Chief Risk Officers in the corporate world \-- intended
as a focal point for managing a portfolio of risk across disparate
interests, setting national prioritization of risk and allowing
governments to engage in the forward action needed to begin managing
global risks rather than coping with them. The second is to create an
avant-garde of relevant governments and companies around different
global risks \-- \'coalitions of the willing \' \-- allowing risk
mitigation to be a process of gradually-expanding alliances rather than
a proposition requiring permanent consensus. Above all, Global Risks
2007 makes the case for the active engagement of all sections of the
international community in dealing with global risks. No one group has
the ability to effectively mitigate most global risks. Interdependency
implies not just common vulnerability, but a shared responsibility to
act.\" (pp. 4-5)

BWB Note: What a novel and excellent idea \-- which should start with
the conduct of a national all-hazards risk assessment, don\'t you think?
\-- something like \"walk the talk.\" For decades the U.S. Federal
Government has advocated that State and local governments conduct
all-hazards risk assessments, but has never conducted a national
all-hazard risk assessment. Don\'t hold your breath.\]

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, K-011

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

<wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov>

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