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JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
What should ‘we’ call what we do?
Is the ‘we’ a homogeneous lot???
We are what we are…
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
What should ‘we’ call what we do?
Is the ‘we’ a homogeneous lot???
We are what we are…
And we need to be honest…
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
What should we call what we do?
It comes down to carefully defining definitions…
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
Hazard
A potential or actual force with the capability to cause human injury/ death and/or significant damage to property.
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
EmergencyA 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.
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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.
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
What should ‘we’ call what we do?
Emergency Management (EM) ???
The current gulf between Academics & Practitioners…
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
What should we call what we do?
Comprehensive Emergency Management:
» Mitigation
» Preparedness
» Response
» Recovery
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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’
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
What should we call what we do?
Comprehensive Emergency Management:
» Mitigation
» Preparedness
» Response
» Recovery
Necessary – but not sufficient to be ‘EM’
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
What should we call what we do?
Comprehensive Emergency Management:
» Mitigation
» Preparedness
» Response
» Recovery‘Management under stress & uncertainty’
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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’
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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…’
JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM
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