Emergency management

Emergency management is the generic name of an interdisciplinary field dealing with the strategic organizational management processes used to protect critical assets of an organization from hazard risks that can cause events like disasters or catastrophes and to ensure the continuance of the organization within their planned lifetime. Emergencies, Disasters, and Catastrophes are not gradients, they are separate, distinct problems that require dis... More

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