文档介绍：Disasters by Discipline Title based on book by Dennis Mileti and offered with respect to the author.
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necessary dialogue for emergency management education
Brenda D. Phillips, .
Professor of Emergency Management
Jacksonville State University
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A presentation made at the Workshop “Creating Educational Opportunities for the Hazards Manager of the 21st Century.” Denver, Colorado, October 22, 2003. I extend my appreciation to Deborah Thomas and Dave Neal for their suggestions and guidance but retain responsibility for ments and conclusions.
Introduction
At the July 2003 Boulder Natural Hazards Workshop, Dennis Mileti declared that since people talked about emergency management (EM) as a discipline, “therefore it is.” Though he was not the first to so-state (ICMA 1991; Haddow and Bullock 2003), he did so in a timely manner as the number of EM programs continues to grow. The purpose of my presentation is to continue the debate sparked in that moment and to provoke deliberation over related questions.
Such disciplinary designations are not so easily conferred. We still debate whether emergency management meets criteria as a profession—no doubt our debate on disciplinary status has just begun. But what a potential watershed moment heless! As a veteran of the debates over women’s studies, I ask: is emergency management a discipline? Or a multidisciplinary endeavor? Or a truly interdisciplinary field, integrated into something greater than the sum of its parts? Or perhaps bination, that these are not mutually exclusive? Or how about this one: is there an emergency management canon? These questions will no doubt engage us for years e. Position papers will be written, perspectives challenged, debates entered in mittees, turf battles waged in graduate councils. I can already hear the debate being reduced to whose definition of discipline should be used.
We need to pause and examine our past, while contemplating our future. We can dr