February 12, 2007 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Report

(1) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY:

Congressional Research Service. FY 2008 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security. Washington DC: CRS Report for Congress, February 5, 2007, 3 pages. Accessed at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS22596.pdf

Congressional Research Service. The Department of Homeland Security's Risk Assessment Methodology: Evolution, Issues, and Options for Congress. Washington DC: CRS Report for Congress, February 2, 2007, 33 pages. At: http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/80208.pdf

[Of course, from an emergency management point of view, one of the biggest problems with DHS risk assessment is that it is essentially terrorism, not all-hazards risk assessment. There is a need for a national hazards (including the terrorism hazard) risk assessment. There is to be a presentation on this subject at the June 4-7, 2007 EM HiEd Conference.]

Government Accountability Office. Homeland Security Grants: Observations on Process DHS Used to Allocate Funds to Selected Urban Areas. Washington DC: GAO, February 7, 2007, 49 pages. Accessed at: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-381R

(2) EARTHQUAKE:

Congressional Research Service (Peter Folger). Earthquakes: Risk, Monitoring, Notification, and Research. Washington DC: CRS Report for Congress, February 2, 2007, 21 pages. Accessed at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33861.pdf

[Excerpt: "Close to 75 million people in 39 states face some risk from earthquakes....Estimates of total loss from a hypothetical earthquake of magnitude more than 7.0 range as high as $500 billion for the Los Angeles area."]

(3) HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BEL AIR, MD -- INVESTIGATING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM:

Talked today with John F. Mayhorne, Dean for Business, Computing, and Applied Technology at Harford College, who is investigating the development of some sort of emergency management program. Noted several of my conclusions about emergency management higher education and several hopefully helpful features to be found on the EM HiEd Project website. Also recommended attending the June 4-7, 2007 EM HiEd Conference as a way to further this investigation. For information, Dean Mayhorne can be reached at: [email protected]

(4) PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE:

United Way of the Bay Area. Ready or Not: Ensuring Bay Area Nonprofits Can Serve During Disaster (Executive Summary). San Francisco: United Way of the Bay Area, 2007, 6 pages. At: http://www.uwba.org/about/press/2007-2-2_Ready%20or%20Not_Executive %20Summary.pdf

(5) RESOURCES:

Continuity Insights, Vol. 5, No. 1, January/February 2007. (Bi-monthly publication of Communication Technologies, Inc., 301 S. Main Street, Suite 1 West, Doylestown, PA 18901; phone 215-230-9556; http://continuityinsights.com.) Issue contains article on pandemic planning.

Wayne B.

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM Higher Education Project Manager Emergency Management Institute National Emergency Training Center Federal Emergency Management Agency Department of Homeland Security 16825 S. Seton, K-011 Emmitsburg, MD 21727 (301) 447-1262, voice (301) 447-1598, fax [email protected] http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu

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