Emergency management is one of the most consequential functions in state government, yet in most states it is not positioned ...

Former journalist Lance Coleman’s first weeks as Blount County Emergency Management director may not have been a train wreck but they were certainly complicated by one. In June, County Mayor Ed ...

It’s no secret that the field of emergency management is not overly diverse. The typical emergency manager is an older white male. This lack of diversity is rooted primarily in the profession’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — It has been over a year since City ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

An emergency management system includes activities to prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate future potential harm. The planning should comply with the national strategy as specified in ...

Firefighters do not need help from anyone. Fire Departments do the job for their community, all else be ignored. Does this sound familiar? The fire service is good at getting the job done, with the ...

The purpose of this study is to emphasize the critical importance of integrating wildlife conservation and ecological principles into emergency management practices at the local and state levels in ...

"I want to help protect our country from terrorists," is the comment I hear most often from prospective students looking to get their degrees in homeland security. Most of them, however, end up really ...