PA 553: Disaster, Crisis and Emergency Management and Policy Fall 2009 -- Thursdays, 6:00 to 8:45. |
Click here for the final exam. Click here for the syllabus and schedule Click here to find the course readings (as described in class: password required) Click here for the response paper schedule and links to the response papers Click here for the list of term paper topics! This course is an introduction to policies intended to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the damage done by natural disasters, industrial accidents and intentional (terrorist) attacks in the United States. The costs posed by natural and technological hazards have always been high, and these issues, while relatively low on the public’s agenda, are continuing sources of challenge for public managers at all levels of government. The September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States raised the specter of catastrophe in the United States and, for one of very few times in American history, raised emergency preparedness and management to a high level on the agenda, at least briefly. |