Emergency management in higher education [Book] current practices and conversation / edited by Jessica A. Hubbard.

Contents include: Emergency management: definition, vision, mission, principles -- Lessons from the earthquake lab: an experimental analysis of learning from experience about natural - hazards -- Ensuring effective risk communication before and during and disaster -- Emergency management and homeland security: exploring the gray area -- The importance of international disaster management studies in the field of emergency management -- The war on terror: when response is catastrophe -- A review of the U.S. disaster assistance framework: planning for recovery -- The disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina: blame it on bureaucracy? -- Educating emergency managers: accreditation of collegiate emergency management programs -- Emergency management higher education: demographics. projections, and challenges -- Emergency management: concepts and strategies for effective programs -- Emergency planning for foster children displaced by disaster -- The paradigm shift in planning for special-needs populations -- Community engagement: leadership tool for catastrophic health events -- The routine and the catastrophic: emergency management after Hurricane Katrina -- Delivery of benefits in an emergency: lessons from Katrina -- From lessons learned to lessons taught -- implications of Katrina on the ground and in higher education -- Making "risk based" a reality: constructing a national hazards risk assessment -- The use of Hazus-MH and GIS for emergency management -- Using information technologies in emergency response operations.