This paper identifies three areas of consideration for comprehensive emergency management in the Pacific, west of the IDL: (1) the background, importance, and strategic significance of the COFA region ...

Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

The world of emergency management is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent, and as the emergency management profession grows, the risks become more complex. From 9/11 and Katrina in ...