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Emergency Management Institute, Emmitsburg, MD

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Comparative Emergency Management

  • Cover Page – Comparative Emergency Management
  • Comparative Emergency Management Course Syllabus
  • Session 1 - Course Introduction
  • Session 2 - The Importance of Comparative Emergency Management
  • Session 2 - Power Point
  • Session 3 - The Global Historical Context of Emergency Management
  • Session 3 - Power Point
  • Session 4 - International Efforts to Improve Emergency Management
  • Session 4 - Power Point
  • Session 5 - Disasters and Development
  • Session 5 - Power Point
  • Session 6 - International Disaster Trends
  • Session 6 - Power Point
  • Session 7 - Hazards
  • Session 7 - Power Point
  • Session 8 - Hazards Identification and Profiling
  • Session 8 - Power Point
  • Session 9 - Risk Assessment, Analysis, and Evaluations
    1. Handout 9-1: ISDR Risk Awareness and Assessment
  • Session 9 - Power Point
  • Session 10 - Vulnerability Factors
  • Session 10 - Power Point
  • Session 11 - Risk Perception
  • Session 11 - Power Point
  • Session 12 - The Emergency Management Cycle
  • Session 12 - Power Point
  • Session 13 - Mitigation
  • Session 13 - Power Point
  • Session 14 - Structural Mitigation
  • Session 14 - Power Point
  • Session 15 - Nonstructural Mitigation
    1. Case Study 1: Non-Structural Mitigation Against Earthquake: A Case Study of Istanbul Museums
    2. Case Study 2: Non-Structural Mitigation in Turkey
  • Session 15 - Power Point
  • Session 16 - Risk Transfer, Sharing and Spreading
    1. Reading 2: Integrating Mitigation With Risk-Transfer Instruments
  • Session 16 - Power Point
  • Session 17 - Assessing and Selecting Mitigation Options
  • Session 17 - Power Point
  • Session 18 - Preparedness
    1. Handout 18-1: Media Article
    2. Handout 18-2: Planning Stakeholders
    3. Handout 18-3: Disaster Preparedness for Climate Change in Nicaragua
  • Session 18 - Power Point
  • Session 19 - Public Preparedness Education
    1. Handout 19-1: Community Capacity Building for minimizing Adverse Tsunami Impacts in Sri Lanka: Experience of Disaster Management Centre, Sri Lanka
    2. Handout 19-2: Disaster Planning by Residents Based on Awareness of their own Situation: Disaster Drills in the Shakemachi Neighborhood of Harunasan-machi
    3. Handout 19-3: Community-Based Capacity in Public Schools in Armenia
    4. Handout 19-4: Total Disaster Risk Management - Public Education and Community Outreach Programmes by the Singapore Civil Defense Force
    5. Handout 19-5: Strengthening and Enhancing People's Involvement and Preparedness at the Grassroot Level: A Case of "Mr. Warning" a Village-Based Disaster Warning Volunteer, Thailand
    6. Handout 19-6: More to Lose - reducing family vulnerability to floods and storms in Central Vietnam
    7. Handout 19-7: "Prepare Bay Area" to Reach One Million People
    8. Handout 19-8: Case Study - Bangladesh's response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr
    9. Report 19-1: National Preparedness Campaign: New Zealand
  • Session 19 - Power Point
  • Session 20 - Response and Response Life-Saving/Life-Sustaining Functions
  • Session 20 - Power Point
  • Session 20 - Handouts
    1. Handout 20-1: Cyclone Evacuation Saved Thousands in Bangladesh
    2. Handout 20-2: Field Hospital in Qingchuan Open to Patients
    3. Handout 20-3: Evacuation Ordered as Chilean Volcano Begins to Spew Ash
    4. Handout 20-4: Disaster Assessment
    5. Handout 20-5: Nepal: FWR/MWR Floods and Landslides
    6. Handout 20-5a: Example of Assessment Report
    7. Handout 20-6: Mass Fatality Management Following the South Asian Tsunami Disaster: Case Studies in Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka
    8. Handout 20-7 - Violence Against Women in Disasters
  • Session 21 - Command, Control, Coordination and Disaster Declarations
    1. Handout 21-1: the Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System
    2. Handout 21-2: Co-ordinated Incident Management System
    3. Handout 21-3: British Columbia Emergency Response
  • Session 21 - Power Point
  • Session 22 - Disaster Recovery
  • Session 22 - Power Point
  • Session 23 - Types of Recovery
  • Session 23 - Power Point
  • Session 24 - Midterm
  • Session 25 - Governmental Emergency Management Agencies
  • Session 25 - Power Point
  • Session 26 - Nongovernmental Organizations
  • Session 26 - Power Point
  • Session 27 - Multilateral Organizations
  • Session 27 - Power Point
  • Session 28 - International Financial Institutions
    1. Supplemental Reading 28-1: World Bank Risk Reduction Project Bogota
    2. Supplemental Reading 28-2: World Bank Risk Reduction Project India
    3. Supplemental Reading 28-3: World Bank Risk Reduction Project Haiti
    4. Supplemental Reading 28-4: World Bank Risk Reduction Project Republic of Indonesia
    5. Supplemental Reading 28-5: World Bank Disaster Recovery Loan Haiti
    6. Supplemental Reading 28-6: World Bank Disaster Recovery Loan Yemen
  • Session 28 - Power Point
  • Session 29 - Final Exam
  • Supplemental Session 1 (S1) - Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
  • Supplemental Session 1 - Power Point
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