# Presentation: 318918

## What should we call what we do?

-  Comprehensive Vulnerability Management
-  Disaster Management
-  Integrated Public Risk Management
-  Public Safety Management
-  Hazards Risk Management
-  Hazards Management
-  Homeland Security
-  Emergency Management

## What should ‘we’ call what we do?

- Is the ‘we’ a homogeneous lot???

## What should ‘we’ call what we do?

- Is the ‘we’ a homogeneous lot???
- We are what we are...

## What should ‘we’ call what we do?

- Is the ‘we’ a homogeneous lot???
- We are what we are...
- And we need to be honest...

## Sometimes things just don’t make sense... 	and need careful examination...

*Sometimes things just don’t make sense... **	**and need careful examination...*

## What should we call what we do?

- It comes down to carefully defining definitions...

## Hazard

- A potential or actual force with the capability to cause human injury/ death and/or significant damage to property.

## Emergency

- A Hazard impact causing adverse physical, social, psychological, economic or political effects _that Challenges the Ability to Rapidly & Effectively Respond._  Requires a *stepped up capacity and capability (mutual aid, expanded management, etc.) to meet an expected outcome.  *
*   **Commonly requires change from normal management methods.*

## Disaster

- A Hazard impact causing adverse physical, social, psychological, economic or political effects _that Exceed the Ability to Rapidly & Effectively Respond_. *Expected outcomes are affected... *
*   **Requires change from normal management methods to manage effectively.*

## What should ‘we’ call what we do?

- Emergency Management (EM) ???
- The current gulf between Academics & Practitioners...

## What should we call what we do?

- Comprehensive Emergency Management:
-  Mitigation
-  Preparedness
-  Response
-  Recovery

## What should we call what we do?

- Emergency Management (EM)
- ‘Emergency management’ is responsible for _*managing*_* *the four phases of comprehensive emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery

## What should we call what we do?

- ‘Emergency Management’ addresses the science of managing people and complex systems under emergency conditions, and managing the programs that comprise CEM*
- * CEM: Comprehensive Emergency Management

## What should we call what we do?

- Comprehensive Emergency Management:
-  Mitigation
-  Preparedness
-  Response
-  Recovery
*Requires an overall program to demonstrate how these four focus activities are inter-related and coordinated... i.e., ‘managed’*

## What should ‘we’ call what we do?

-  Comprehensive Vulnerability Management
-  Disaster Management
-  Integrated Public Risk Management
-  Public Safety Management
-  Hazards Risk Management
-  Hazards Management
-  Homeland Security
-  Emergency Management

## What should we call what we do?

- Comprehensive Emergency Management:
-  Mitigation
-  Preparedness
-  Response
-  Recovery

*Necessary – but not sufficient to be ‘EM’*

## What should we call what we do?

- Comprehensive Emergency Management:
-  Mitigation
-  Preparedness
-  Response
-  Recovery

*‘**Management under          stress & uncertainty’*

## What should we call what we do?

- Comprehensive Emergency Management:
-  Mitigation
-  Preparedness
-  Response
-  Recovery

*‘**Management under          stress & uncertainty’*
*Also Necessary – but not sufficient to be ‘EM’*

## What should we call what we do?

- Emergency Management:
- 	The *management *of:* *
-  Mitigation
-  Preparedness
-  Response
-  Recovery
- THIS IS WHAT DEFINES & SEPARATES ‘EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT’ – the ‘_are_’ in ‘we are what we are...’

## What should ‘we’ call what we do?

-  Comprehensive Vulnerability Management
-  Disaster Management
-  Integrated Public Risk Management
-  Public Safety Management
-  Hazards Risk Management
-  Hazards Management
-  Homeland Security
-  Emergency Management

## What should ‘we’ call what we do?

- Trying to be ‘all things to all disciplines’ through name designation can extend to become ‘nothing to anybody...’