Topic 1: Emergency Management Review
Overview
Topic 1 introduces the basic Emergency Management concepts that you will require in order to negotiate the context of this subject. For those of you who have already studied EMG100 Introduction to Emergency Management, treat this topic as a refresher and if after reading through the Learning Outcomes below you feel confident that this material is very familiar to you, please move on to Topic 2. For students from other disciplines who are taking EMG308 as an elective, welcome to Emergency Management!
Topic 1 will give you a feel for Emergency Management vocabulary and concepts and will provide an essential background context for the rest of your study in this subject.
Learning outcomes
After completing the work for this Topic you will be refreshed and reminded of:
- the definitions of terms used in Emergency Management
- classifying disasters
- a framework for Emergency Management
- the relationship between Recovery Management and Risk Management
- the risk assessment process
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Use the subject's online forum to briefly introduce yourself. This only needs to be something short. For example, where you are from, what you do, your link with Emergency Management and one thing that you hope to learn from your involvement in this subject. I would also like you to take this opportunity to organise your subject Forum so that you receive email notifications of the Forum message postings. You do this by clicking on the ‘email’ tag at the top of the Forum's page. This will bring up a list of all the Forums that you have access to and you can then click on the little box next to each Forum that you wish to receive email notification about. This not only allows you to receive Forum postings by email, but you can also reply to postings from your email program as you would normal emails. |
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