The new role of higher education in emergency management
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This paper discusses the role of higher education in hazard, disaster, emergency, risk, and crisis management, as it pertains to escalating disaster losses in the United States and an evolving emergency management profession. Given that these losses have been escalating for decades and are projected to become even larger, what is being done today in terms of emergency management is not adequate. The time is now for a new national approach to disaster-related emergency management, one that calls on colleges and universities to help bridge the gap between the emergency management body of knowledge and current practices. This paper describes one tool for bridging this gap—FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Project—as well as evolving educational opportunities for students and emergency management practitioners.References
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