George Haddow - Introduction to Emergency Management

Sixth Edition

George D. Haddow

Jane A. Bullock

Damon P. Coppola

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The authors dedicate this book to Chief Rich Marinucci. Rich brought a visionary leadership to the US Fire Service that improved the safety of Americas 1.15 million firefighters and helped to educate all Americans about the critical role that fire personnel play in our everyday lives. His commitment to bridging the gap between the fire and emergency management communities increased the resilience of towns and cities nationwide. Rich remains an inspiration and a friend to all of us.

Brad Gair, Vice President Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Twenty-five years ago when I started out in emergency management, most of us were only part-time emergency managers and had other larger responsibilities in our organizations. In my case, it was building roads, bridges, and flood control projects in rural Arizona. When a disaster happened, we stopped whatever we were working on, managed the emergency, and then went back to our regular work.

We did the best we could with the time we could allocate to the profession, but in those days, there were few places to turn to for formal guidance. There were a couple of places where you could get a college degree in emergency management, and if you looked hard enough you might find some useful information in various books and journal articles, but there was nothing comprehensive.

All of this changed post-9/11 and again post-Hurricane Katrina. Our nation has had to adapt to the growing threat of more frequent, more costly, and more complex disasters. Terrorists are no longer just faraway adversaries plotting large-scale attacks; today they may also be from any of our own communities, planning and executing small but effective attacks that kill and injure dozens. Warmer oceans and higher sea levels mean that powerful hurricanes are increasingly capable of impacting major population centers and causing damages at unprecedented levels. Now with our dependence on technology growing exponentially, anyone with a computer and some basic cyber skills can already cause significant disruptions, and in the coming years will be able to wreak devastation at a vastly disproportionate scale. Add to this the ongoing substantive risk of nuclear, biological, electromagnetic pulse, and other natural and manmade crises, and disaster management can be an extremely daunting task.

Fortunately, as the challenges have grown, so has our emergency management profession. We now have a network of seasoned, full-time emergency managers across the country, many of whom have gained broad experience in preparing for and dealing with major disasters in recent years. We share our knowledge, our hard-learned lessons, and our best practices, and are now considered to be part of one of the fastest growing and most critical sectors nationwide.

Emergency managers traditionally found their way into the business, rather than selecting emergency management as their vocation. All of that has changed. There are now hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States and around the world offering degrees in emergency management, national security, and related fields. The next generation of emergency managers will have purposefully selected this career and will be better prepared than their predecessors to use the tools, technologies, and strategies needed for the future.

The one thing that has not changed is the basics of emergency management. No matter how complex and difficult the threats become, we still have to start with our proven processes: we have to prepare for all-hazards, including planning, training, and exercises; we have to respond effectively and efficiently making certain that we have the proper command, control, communication and coordination mechanisms in place; we need to understand recovery processes and programs to help our communities build back better and stronger after a disaster; and perhaps most importantly, we need to find new and innovative ways to make our communities and our nation more resilient to a wide variety of hazards.

To accomplish this, our next generation of emergency managers needs a foundational resource that teaches the key principles of emergency management and what it truly means to be an emergency manager. Since 2003, Introduction to Emergency Management has been that resource. Now in this sixth edition, George Haddow, Jane Bullock, and Damon Coppola have closely studied current trends in emergency management, reviewed lessons learned from recent major disasters, and analyzed the emerging threats of the future to create this latest edition of the definitive textbook on the subject, used in institutions of higher education worldwide.