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THE FUTURE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
George HaddowThe George Washington University
Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management
Washington, DC2005 Emergency Management Higher Education Conference
FEMA Emergency Management Institute
Emmitsburg, MD - June 7-9, 2005
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Spring 2003
“We are optimistic that emergency management can survive and thrive in the future if it embraces the lessons learned from the past and moves forward with a
progressive agenda that will be valued by the American people.”
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Four Lessons
• Maintain an all-hazards approach to emergency management.
• The federal response infrastructure, based on the Federal Response Plan, works.
• Continue to practice the concepts that facilitated the U.S. emergency management system becoming the best system in the world.
• Make mitigation the focus of emergency management in the United States.
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Emergency Management Today (2005)
• Terrorism focus
• National Response Plan (NRP)
• Customer focus, partnerships and communications
• Mitigation
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Five Pressing Issues
• Imbalance of focus between homeland security and natural disaster management
• Challenge of involving the public in preparedness planning
• Lack of an effective partnership with the business community
• Cuts to EM funding• Questions surrounding the evolving
organizational structure of the nation’s emergency management system.
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A History of Imbalance Repeated
• Civil Defense
• Hugo, Loma Prieta, Andrew
• History repeating itself
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More Public Involvement Needed
• Limited role
• Project Impact, Tulsa, Napa
• “Redefining Readiness”
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Public-Private Partnership Effort Failing
• Business Roundtable
• Overall strategy
• Information and planning
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Emergency Management Funding Cuts
• Natural hazards programs
• First responders and plans
• Homeland security offices
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Organizational Uncertainty
• Partnership
• Structure
• DHS
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A New Path for Emergency Management
• Lessons learned
• Single focus
• DHS mission
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Where does emergency management go from here?
• Community level
• New breed of government official
• Consensus building process
• All-Hazards including terrorism
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Conclusion