Emergency and disaster planning and management are set to become a fully-fledged profession. They require practitioners to coordinate complex operations that...

Advanced Emergency and Crisis Planning and Management (IRDR0003)

Emergency and disaster planning and management are set to become a fully-fledged profession. They require practitioners to coordinate complex operations that involve many different kinds of expert and widely diverse problems that must be solved rapidly and efficiently. This module will deal systematically with specialised emergency planning and management, as applied to different sectors. These include cultural heritage, the care and protection of disabled people, the medical and industrial sectors, and planning to keep mass gatherings safe. Counter-terrorism will be examined in terms of both general practice and the lessons of past events. Humanitarian emergencies will be discussed with respect to international policy, planning and management. The psychological effects of major emergencies upon people who manage and respond to them will be investigated. Ample use will be made of case histories and scenario-based classroom discussions and exercises.

The module will cover the following topics:

state of the art in emergency planning and management; pandemics and epidemiology; death and injury in disasters; medical emergency management; critical infrastructure and wide-area power failure; industrial emergencies and hazardous materials transportation; cultural heritage protection; safety of mass gatherings; response to terrorism and CBRN incidents; people with disabilities in emergency situations; disaster management in developing countries; migration and refugee emergencies; civil-military cooperation; shelter, recovery and reconstruction; adapting response and planning to systemic risk; the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction; stress and the emergency manager; examples of emergency planning and management problems from the UK, Japan and the world.