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15th Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Conference
June 4-7, 2012


Emergency Management Institute, Emmitsburg, MD

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Academic Emergency Management and Related Courses


The college-level courses noted below have been contract-developed for the FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project by, in most cases, practicing college/university faculty. The primary intent is for college and university faculty to add these courses to their curriculum, drawing, in whole or in part, from the material provided below. These college courses are not taught at FEMA's Emergency Management Institute.

  • Breaking the Disaster Cycle: Future Directions in Natural Hazard Mitigation
    - Additional Material
  • Business Crisis and Continuity Management (BCCM) (Summary)
    - Additional Material
  • Building Disaster Resilient Communities (Summary)
    - Additional Material
  • Catastrophe Readiness and Response Course
  • Coastal Hazards Management
  • Comparative Emergency Management
    -(Additional Course Resources)
  • Disaster Response Operations and Management - Upper Division College Course
  • Earthquake Hazard and Emergency Management Course
  • Emergency Management Principles and Application for Tourism, Hospitality, and Travel Management Industries (Summary)
  • Floodplain Management Course (Graduate Level)
  • Floodplain Management: Principles and Current Practices
  • Hazard Mapping and Modeling
  • Hazards Risk Management Course
    - Additional Materials
  • Holistic Disaster Recovery: Creating a More Sustainable Future
    - Additional Course Resources
  • Homeland Security and Emergency Management
  • Individual and Community Disaster Education (Summary)
    - Additional Material
    - Hurricane Strike (product for middle school students) http://meted.ucar.edu/emgmt/access.htm
    This is an access page that gives you the choice of running it from the Web or download it to your computer (if you have low bandwidth).
  • National Incident Management Systems Course (NIMS)
  • Political and Policy Basis of Emergency Management (Summary)
  • Principles and Practice of Hazard Mitigation (Summary)
    - Additional Mitigation Course Materials
  • Principle, Practice, Philosophy and Doctrine of Emergency Management
  • Public Administration and Emergency Management (Summary)
  • Research and Analysis Methods in Emergency Management (Summary)
  • Social Dimensions of Disaster, 2nd Edition (Summary)
    - Additional Material
  • Sociology of Disaster (Summary)
  • Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters (Summary)
    - Additional Social Vulnerability Course Material
  • Technology and Emergency Management (Summary)
    - Additional Materials
  • Terrorism and Emergency Management (Summary)
    - Additional Terrorism References
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