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EMI Learning Management System (LMS) Will Rollout on July 10th, 2023!

EMI will launch the new Learning Management System to enhance student training, and provide an improved interactive experience for self-paced courses on July 10th, 2023. To ensure a smooth transition, there will be an outage period from 6/30/2023 through 7/10/2023

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Academic Emergency Management and Related Courses (AEMRC) for the Higher Education Program

Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management Textbook

Documents below are in MS Word or Adobe PDF format.

Contributing Authors - 26KB MS Word
Preface - 29KB MS Word
Title Page - 26KB MS Word
Table of Contents - 38KB MS Word
Dedication Page - 25KB MS Word
Chapter 1: Introduction - The Importance of Multi- and Inter-disciplinary Research on Disasters and for Emergency Management - 110KB MS Word
Chapter 2: Geographys Contributions to Understanding Hazards and Disasters - 110KB MS Word
Chapter 3: Weather and Emergency Management - 213KB MS Word
Chapter 4: Engineering Contribution to the Field of Emergency Management - 118KB PDF
Chapter 5: Sociology, Disaster and Emergency Management: History, Contributions and Future Agenda - 144KB MS Word
Chapter 6: Research about the Mass Media and Disaster Never (Well Hardly Ever) The Twain Shall Meet - 158KB PDF
Chapter 7: Disasters, A Psychological Perspective - 113KB MS Word
Chapter 8: Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Disasters - 178 KB MS Word
Chapter 9: Social Work and Disasters - 130KB MS Word
Chapter 10: U.S. Disaster Policy and Management in an Era of Homeland Security - 137KB MS Word
Chapter 11: Public Administration, Emergency Management, and Disasters: Research and Education - 75KB MS Word
Chapter 12: International Relations and Disasters: Illustrating the Relevance of the Discipline to the Study and Profession of Emergency Management - 104KB PDF
Chapter 13: Comparative Politics and Disasters: Assessing Substantive and Methodological Contributions - 358KB MS Word
Chapter 14: Contribution of Management Theory & Practice to Emergency Management - 87KB MS Word
Chapter 15: Gerontology and Emergency Management: Discovering Pertinent Themes and Functional Elements Within Two Disciplines- 63KB MS Word
Chapter 16: Public Health and Medicine in Emergency Management - 94KB MS Word
Chapter 17: Whos in Charge Here? Some Observations on the Relationship Between Disasters and the American Criminal Justice System - 90KB MS Word
Chapter 18: Economic applications in disaster research, mitigation, and planning - 131KB MS Word
Chapter 19: Emergency Management and Law - 94KB MS Word
Chapter 20: Environmental Management and Disasters: Contributions of the Discipline to the Profession and Practice of Emergency Management - 118KB MS Word
Chapter 21: Communication Studies and Emergency Management: Common Ground, Contributions, and Future Research Opportunities for Two Emerging Disciplines - 110KB PDF
Chapter 22: Business Crisis and Continuity Management - 134KB PDF
Chapter 23: Information Disasters and Disaster Information: Where Information Science Meets Emergency Management - 598KB MS Word
Chapter 24: Making Sense of Consilience: Reviewing the Findings and Relationships among Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management - 136KB MS Word

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