Emergency management in higher education
Subtitle: current practices and conversations
By: Jessica A. Hubbard, editor in association with Public Entity Risk Institute
Contributors: United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Public Entity Risk Institute
Publisher: Public Entity Risk Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Fairfax, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780979372216
Subjects: Emergency management; Congresses; Study and teaching; Disaster relief; Assistance in emergencies
Notes: "Papers from the 2007 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Conference."

Includes selected bibliographical references (p. 337-342).
Table of contents: title: Emergency management: definition, vision, mission, principles --; title: Lessons from the earthquake lab: an experimental analysis of learning from experience about natural-hazards  -- Robert Meyer; title: Ensuring effective risk communication before and during a disaster  -- Theodore J. Hogan; title: Emergency management and homeland security: exploring the gray area  -- Glen Woodbury -- The importance of international disaster management studies in the field of emergency management / -- Damon P. Coppola; title: The war on terror: when the response is the catastrophe  -- Ian S. Lustick; title: A review of the U.S. disaster assistance framework: planning for recovery  -- Gavin P. Smith; title: The disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina: blame it on the bureaucracy?  -- Saundra K. Schneider; title: Educating emergency managers: accreditation of collegiate emergency management programs  -- Kay C. Goss ... [et al.]; title: Emergency management higher education: demographics, projections, and challenges  -- Carol L. Cwiak; title: Emergency management: concepts and strategies for effective programs  -- Lucien G. Canton; title: Emergency planning for foster children displaced by disaster  -- Meghan Butasek; title: The paradigm shift in planning for special-needs populations  -- Brian S. Parsons and Debra Fulmer; title: Community engagement: leadership tool for catastrophic health events  -- Monica Schoch-Spana ... [et al.]; title: The routine and the catastrophic: emergency management after Hurricane Katrina  -- R. Steven Daniels; title: Delivery of benefits in an a emergency: lessons from Katrina  -- Thomas H. Stanton; title: From lessons learned to lessons taught: implications of Katrina on the ground and in higher education  -- John J. Kiefer and Lindsey O. McCormick; title: Making "risk-based" a reality: constructing a national hazards risk assessment  -- Patrick S. Roberts; title: The use of Hazus-MH and GIS for emergency management  -- Jamie D. Mitchem, Thomas R. Mueller, Kevin J. Mickey; title: Using information technologies in emergency response operations -- John C. Pine.