"Papers from the 2008 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Conference." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Emergency managers as change agents / Christine G. Springer. Integrating disaster resilience into traditional academic programs / John J. Kiefer, Kristina J. Peterson -- Constructing theory for emergency managers: a principles based approach / George A. Youngs -- Influence, presidential authority, and emergency management: FEMA's rise and fall / Eli Lehrer -- Concepts, frameworks, and theory : perspectives on the emergence of emergency management based theory / Daniel J. Klenow -- Strengthening the emergency management higher education community : addressing the challenges inherent in internal and external validity / Carol L. Cwiak, Stacy L. Muffet-Willett -- Teaching and researching community resilience and disaster reduction from within Huxley College of the Environment / Gigi Berardi, Rebekah Green -- Disaster field research as graduate coursework / Jack L. Rozdilsky -- Growing your emergency management program : lessons learned at the University of Akron / Stacy L. Muffet-Willett, Robert M. Schwartz - Enhancing graduate hazards and disaster management programs / John C. Pine -- Improving outcomes for socially vulnerable populations / Deden Rukmana, Emily Bentley -- Do long term climate forecasts have a role in local emergency management? / Kris Wernstedt, Patrick Roberts, Matthew Dull -- Emergency managers as change agents / Christine G. Springer.
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