- "Emergency management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters."
The preparation, response, mitigation, and recovery from emergencies and disasters, including natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and public health emergencies.
- "Emergency management focuses on the management of disasters, which are events that produce more impacts than a community can handle on its own."
- "The management of disasters tends to require some combination of activity from individuals and households, organizations, local, and/or higher levels of government."
- "The activities of emergency management can be generally categorized into preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery."
- "Other terms such as disaster risk reduction and prevention are also common."
- "The outcome of emergency management is to prevent disasters and where this is not possible, to reduce their harmful impacts."
- "Creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters."
- "Minor events with limited impacts are managed through the day-to-day functions of a community."
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- "Some combination of activity from individuals and households, organizations, local, and/or higher levels of government is required."
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- "The outcome of emergency management is to prevent disasters and where this is not possible, to reduce their harmful impacts."
- "Some combination of activity from individuals and households, organizations, local, and/or higher levels of government is required."
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- "Although many different terminologies exist globally..."
- "Emergency management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters."