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???

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

Sometimes things just don’t make sense… and need careful examination…

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

JA Barbera – GWU/ICDRM

What should ‘we’ call what we do?

Trying to be ‘all things to all disciplines’ through name

designation can extend to become ‘nothing to anybody…’