Catastrophe Readiness and Response

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• Course Outline: Session Topics and Associated Learning Objectives
• Report: Center for Transatlantic Relations Hypercomplex Events Meeting
• Session 1 - Course Introduction (DOC format)
• Session 1 - Course Introduction (PPT format)
• Session 2 - Comparison of Disaster and Catastrophe Response Planning (DOC format)
• Session 2 - Comparison of Disaster and Catastrophe Response Planning (PPT format)
• Session 2 - Appendix 1: Long Term Global Threat Assessment: Challenging New Roles for Emergency Managers
• Session 2 - Appendix 2: An Abrupt Climate Change Scenerio and Its Implications or United States National Security
• Session 2 - Power Point: Comparison of Disaster and Catastrophe Response Planning
• Session 3 - Variables and Relationships
• Session 3 - Power Point: Variables and Relationships
• Session 4 – Ethics
• Session 4 – Power Point – Ethics
• Session 5 - Political and Legal Issues
• Session 5 - Appendix A - "Failure of Initiative" House of Representatives Report
• Session 5 - Appendix B - Senate-Katrina-Findings "Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared"
• Session 5 - Appendix C - The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
• Session 5 - Appendix D - Powers of the Governer
• Session 5 - Power Point - Political and Legal Issues
• Session 6 - Social and Economic Issues
• Session 6 - Power Point - Social and Economic Issues
• Session 7 – Section 2 – Critical Infrastructure
• Session 7 – Section 2 – Critical Infrastructure Power Point
• Session 7 – Section 2 - Public Health
• Session 7 – Section 2 – Public Health Power Point
• Session 8 - Mass Relocation
• Session 8 - Power Point: Mass Relocation
• Session 9 - Planning Strategies and Skills: Response
• Session 9 - Power Point - Planning Strategies and Skills: Response
• Session 10 - Recovery and Reconstruction
• Session 10 - Power Point - Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction
• Session 11 - Emergent Organizations and Networks in Catastrophic Environments
• Session 11  - Power Point – Emergent Organizations and Networks in Catastrophic Environments
• Session 12 - New Methods of Planning for Catastrophe Disasters
• Session 12 - Power Point - New Methods of Planning for Catastrophe Disasters
• Session 13 - Pandemic Scenerio
• Session 14 - Tabletop Excercise Design
• Session 14 - Tabletop Excercise Design
• Session 14 - Power Point: Tabletop Excercise Design
• Session 15 - Course Summary – Major concepts and their integration, plus final exam
• Session 15 – Power Point – Course Summary