Ideas from an emerging field : teaching emergency management in higher education / Jessica A. Hubbard, editor.

"Papers from the 2008 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Conference."

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Bringing social problems perspectives into emergency management collegiate curricula, by Thomas E. Drabek / 2. Integrating disaster resilience into traditional academic programs, by John J. Kiefer and Kristina J. Peterson / 3. Constructing theory for emergency managers: a principles-based approach, by George A. Youngs / 4. Influence, presidential authority, and emergency management: FEMA's rise and fall, by Eli Lehrer / 5. Concepts, frameworks, and theory: perspectives on the emergence of emergency management based theory, by Daniel J. Klenow / 6. Strengthening the emergency management highter education community: addressing the challenges inherent in internal and external validity, by Carol L. Cwiak and Stacy L. Muffet-Willett / 7. Teaching and researching community resilience and disaster reduction from within Huxley College of the Environment, by Gigi Berardi and Rebekah Green / 8. Disaster field research as graduate coursework, by Jack L. Rozdilsky / 9. Growing your emergency management program: lessons learned at the University of Akron, by Stacy L. Muffet-Willett and Robert M. Schwartz / 10. Enhancing graduate hazards and disaster management programs, by John C. Pine / 11. Improving outcomes for socially vulnerable populations, by Deden Rukmana and Emily Bentley / 12. Do long-term climate forecasts have a role in local emergency management? by Kris Wernstedt, Patrick Roberts, Matthew Dull / 13. Emergency managers as change agents, by Christine G. Springer.