Emergency managers and public safety professionals are more frequently being called on to address increasingly challenging and complex critical incidents, with a wider variety and intensity of hazards, threats, and community vulnerabilities. Much of the work that falls into the scope of emergency managers - prevention, preparedness, mitigation - is -blue sky planning- and can be contained and effectively managed within projects. This book provides a foundational project management methodology relevant to emergency management practice, and explains and demonstrates how project management can be applied in the context of emergency and public safety organizations.
Special features include:
- an initial focus on risk assessment and identification of mitigation and response planning measures;
- a clear set of better practices, using a diverse set of examples relevant to today-s emergency environment, from projects to develop emergency response exercises to
