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Emergency Management Higher Education Virtual Symposiums for 2013


Emergency Management Institute, Emmitsburg, MD

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Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters


Documents below are in MS Word or Adobe PDF format.

  • SAMPLE COURSE SYLLABUS.doc - 87 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 1 - Handout A - With Eyes Wide Open.doc - 32 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 1 - Handout B - Sample Syllabus.doc - 81 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 1- Thinking About Disasters - Course Overview.doc - 122 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 10 - Power Point - Race and Ethnicity II.ppt - 179 KB, PPT File
  • Session 10 - Race and Ethnicity II (2 of 2 sessions).doc - 91 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 11 - Gender and Disaster Vulnerability I.doc - 219 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 11 - Handout A-Patterns of SV-Women in the United States.doc - 35 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 11 - Handout B-Gender and Disaster Patterns in the US.doc - 35 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 11 - Power Point - Gender I.ppt - 94 KB, PPT File
  • Session 12 - Gender and Disaster Vulnerability II (2 of 2 sessions).doc - 37 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 13 - Age and Disaster Vulnerability.doc - 134 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 13 - Power Point - Age.ppt - 139 KB, PPT File
  • Session 14 - Health and Disability and Disaster Vulnerability.doc - 227 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 14 - Powe Point - Health and Disability.ppt - 116 KB, PPT File
  • Session 15 - Handout - Some Methods For Assessing Readibililty and Reading Levels.doc - 42 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 15 - Language and Lliteracy.doc - 156 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 15 - Power Point - Language and Literacy.ppt - 287 KB, PPT File
  • Session 16 - Foreign Birth.doc - 102 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 16 - Handout - Immigrant Quallification.doc - 31 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 16 - Power Point - Foreign Birth.ppt - 219 KB, PPT File
  • Session 17 - Handout A - Some Potential Effects of Disasters on Families.doc - 30 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 17 - Handout B - Characteristics of Disaster-Resilient Families.doc - 29 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 17 - Household and Family 1 (1 of 2 Sessions).doc - 138 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 17 - Power Point - Household and Family I.ppt - 212 KB, PPT File
  • Session 18 - Household and Family II (2 of 2 Sessions).doc - 45 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 18 - Power Point - Household and Family II.ppt - 83 KB, PPT File
  • Session 19 - Handout - Interpersonal Violence in America.doc - 33 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 19 - Power Point - Violence.ppt - 86 KB, PPT File
  • Session 19 - Violence and Disaster Vulnerability I (1 of 2 Sessions).doc - 181 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 2 - Development of Social Vulnerability Analysis.doc - 140 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 2 - Power Point - Intro To SV Analysis.ppt - 90 KB, PPT File
  • Session 20 - Violence and Social Vulnerability Panel II (2 of 2 Sessions).doc - 31 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 21 - Power Point - Nature of Community.ppt - 257 KB, PPT File
  • Session 21 - The Nature of Human Communities.doc - 105 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 22 - Case Studies of Community Vulnerability.doc - 56 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 22 - Power Point - Community Case Studies.ppt - 202 KB, PPT File
  • Session 23 - Handout -Community Partners.doc - 65 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 23 - Power Point - Strategies for Community Vulnerability Assessment.ppt - 123 KB, PPT File
  • Session 23 - Strategies for Assessing Community Vulnerability.doc - 103 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 24 - Conducting Social Vul Assessments I (1 of 3 Sessions).doc - 61 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 25 - Conducting Soc Vul Assessments II (2 of 3 Sessions).doc - 32 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 26 - Conducting Community Vul Assessments III (3 of 3 Sessions).doc - 32 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 27 - Presenting the Social Vulnerability Assessment Project I (2 of 3 Sessions).doc - 39 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 28 - Presenting the Soc Vul Asssessment Proj II (2 of 3 Sessions).doc - 41 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 29 - Presenting the Soc Vul Assessment Project III (3 of 3 Sessions).doc - 44 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 3 - Power Point - Intro-World Views, Values and Pol Dim.ppt - 89 KB, PPT File
  • Session 3 - World Views, Values, And Political Dimensions.doc - 140 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 30 - Handout - Characteristics of Modern and Aboriginal Cultures.doc - 27 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 30 - New Ideas About Disasters.doc - 134 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 30 - Power Point - New Ideas.ppt - 83 KB, PPT File
  • Session 31 - New Skills for Practitioners.doc - 142 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 31 - Power Point - New Skills for Practitioners.ppt - 102 KB, PPT File
  • Session 32 - Handout - Best Practices-Problems and Solutions from the Field.doc - 126 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 32 - New Practices to Reduce Vulnerability.doc - 183 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 32 - Power Point - New Practices.ppt - 90 KB, PPT File
  • Session 33 - Power Point - Social Change in Disasters.ppt - 89 KB, PPT File
  • Session 33 - Promoting Empowerment-Social Change in Disasters.doc - 87 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 34 - Community-Based Org and Emerg Groups.doc - 102 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 34 - Power Point - Community-Based Organizations and Emergent Groups.ppt - 90 KB, PPT File
  • Session 35 - Communit Organizations in Disasters Panel.doc - 47 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 36 - Presenting Research on Comm-Based Org I (1 of 3 Sessions).doc - 30 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 37 - Presenting Research on Comm-Based Org II (2 of 3 Sessions).doc - 30 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 38 - Presenting Research on Comm-Based Org III (3 of 3 Sessions).doc - 33 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 39 - Power Point - Sustainability and Sustainable Development.ppt - 152 KB, PPT File
  • Session 39 - Sustainability and Sustainable Development.doc - 117 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 4 - Historical Root Causes.doc - 143 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 4 - Power Point - Root Causes of SV - Historical.ppt - 91 KB, PPT File
  • Session 40 - Power Point - Reducing .3rd WORLD SUSTAINABILITY.ppt - 89 KB, PPT File
  • Session 40 - Power Point - Reducing Risk-Sustainability in hte Third World.ppt - 89 KB, PPT File
  • Session 40 - Risk Reduction and Sustainability in the Third World.doc - 134 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 41 - Power Point - Reducing Risk-Sustainability in the First World.ppt - 91 KB, PPT File
  • Session 41 - Risk Reduction and Sustainability in the First World.doc - 153 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 42 - Course Review and Evaluations.doc - 65 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 43 - Study Questions For Final Examination.doc - 78 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 43 - Study Session.doc - 77 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 44 - Final Exam Questions.doc - 100 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 45 - EM for Native Americans.doc - 166 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 5 - Power Point - Root Causes of SV - Tech and Human-Induced Hazards.ppt - 716 KB, PPT File
  • Session 5 - Technological and Human-Induced Hazards.doc - 115 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 6 - Population & Economic Trends.doc - 122 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 6 - Power Point - Root Causes of SV - Demo and Eco Trends.ppt - 2451 KB, PPT File
  • Session 7 - Power Point - Social Class I.ppt - 138 KB, PPT File
  • Session 7 - Social Class and Disaster Vulnerability (1 of 2 Sessions).doc - 106 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 8 - Power Point - Social Class II.ppt - 86 KB, PPT File
  • Session 8 - Social Class and Disaster Vulnerability II(2 of 2 Sessions).doc - 76 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Session 9 - Power Point - Race and Ethnicity I.ppt - 203 KB, PPT File
  • Session 9 - Race and Ethnicity I (1 of 2 Sessions).doc - 120 KB, Wordpad Document
  • Sessions 24-26 - Power Point - Conducting a Social Vulnerability Assessment.ppt - 95 KB, PPT File
  • Sessions 27-29 - Power Point - Student Projects on Vulnerability Assessments.ppt - 82 KB, PPT File
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS .doc - 32 KB, Wordpad Document
  • TITLE PAGE - A Social Vulnerability Approach To Disasters.doc - 29 KB, Wordpad Document
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