Fundamentals of Emergency Management

This is an continuation of the "Think Piece"  B. Wayne Blancard wrote a  for an Emergency Management Round table Meeting on March 2007 for the FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI).

This time we are focusing on the Fundamentals of Emergency Management:

1. Mission:  Safeguarding Life and Property Mission – Public Safety Public Trust

2. Comprehensive Emergency Management

3. Intergovernmental Structure

4. Building Disaster Resistant and Resilient Communities

5. Building Nationwide System of Effective Disaster Response and Recovery

6. All Actors:  Building and Maintaining Relationships – Communication, Collaboration, Coordination, Customer Focus and Service, Information-Sharing, Team Building

7. All Hazards, Functionalism and Anticipating Anything That Could Happen

8. All Phases -- Four Phases of Emergency Management

9. All Disasters Are Different

10. All Disasters Are Local First

11. Disasters Impact Differentially

12. Integrated Emergency Management

13. Disasters Are A Growth Business

14. Emergence Management Is Situated in Political, Social, Economic, Administrative, Historical, Contexts  

15. Professional Emergency Management Is Science and Knowledge-Based – A Full-Time Occupation Which Requires Education, Training, Experience and Continuous Improvement

16. Models of Emergency Management Organization Matter

17. Approaches to Emergency Management Matter

18. Emergency Management Standards and Certification

  

I will be going through these in the future, but it is good to know what we will be looking at in the future.

Good Luck and Good Hunting