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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. What should ‘we’ call what we do?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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…’