By Emily Kaster – Executive Summary – The disaster landscape is changing; preparedness and response systems must evolve too. The year 2020 was the seventh consecutive year in which the United States faced ten or more catastrophic billion-dollar weather and …
Are We There Yet? Exploring Professionalization of Emergency Management in the State of Maine →
By Glen Woodbury There continues to be a critical skill that we are failing to learn, failing to teach, homeland security leaders. We often hear that the increasingly complex global, strategic, and operational environments demand “thinking differently” as if the …
Little training is given to new emergency managers as it relates to the different types of documents or plans that are the foundation of preparedness and response. Over time this has led to confusion and problems in our profession.
By David Hesselmeyer
What happens if the emergency responder wants to expand their skills to focus on preparedness, mitigation, or recovery? Perhaps it is time to consider a career shift to become an Emergency Manager.
By Bradley Hubbard
With respect to marginalized populations, there are flaws in the way technologies are designed and how data is collected that have negative, disparate impacts on these groups.
By Monica Sanders
Space capabilities and technological innovations are emerging technologies that are shaping and redefining homeland security, emergency management and response operations.
By Arthur Simental, Tina Bynum and John Holst
By Charles Chapman – Executive Summary – This thesis presents a qualitative analysis of the current state of guidance provided by the federal government to state and local emergency response jurisdictions. The federal government drives a national incident management strategy …
By Sean Miller – Executive Summary – Emergency management and public safety practitioners cannot foretell the future, but they are often the first to know about impending hazards that require a public response to ensure safety. Thus, they possess information …
By Amy Gillespie – Executive Summary – Emergency management programs in Washington State are vulnerable because they do not have a sustainable and stable funding source. In 2004, the Washington State Emergency Management Council assessed its emergency management system. The …
An Effective Funding Strategy for Washington State Emergency Management Programs →
By Emily Jane McLoughlin Zahreddine – Executive Summary – Cyber-attacks will create grave homeland security consequences in the coming years: power outages that last for weeks, drinking water supplies tainted with bacteria, and other destructive outcomes that are likely to …
Beyond The First 48: Incorporating Nontraditional Stakeholders into Incident Response →
