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2020 was a year unlike any other in U.S. history. The Future of Emergency Management After 2020: The New, Normal and Novel provocatively addresses the significant changes to the emergency management field. This title discusses the specific changes, commonalities, and future and persistent challenges for the next decade. The Future of Emergency Management After 2020: The New, Normal and Novel will draw attention to a variety of issues and challenges which will alter the scope, complexity and priorities of future emergency managers. This title will delineate the differences between emergency management and public safety. Additionally, it addresses international challenges that may arise. Faculty, students, and practitioners of emergency management along with anyone with a general interest in emergency management will find this book extremely pertinent and valuable.

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"""Crucial reading for anyone currently working in the all-hazard emergency management fields and future practitioners. It is authoritative and sobering. Readable, compelling, and timely."" --Linda Crerar, Director, The Center of Excellence for Homeland Security-Emergency Management ""Crucial reading for anyone currently working in the all-hazard emergency management fields and future practitioners. It is authoritative and sobering. Readable, compelling, and timely."" --Linda Crerar, Director, The Center of Excellence for Homeland Security-Emergency Management --Linda Crerar, The Center of Excellence for Homeland Security-Emergency Management, Director ""In the first minutes of opening this book, I found myself reaching for the notepad and highlighter because this book provides the seasoned emergency manager and the newbie the groundwork for where we are and where we need to be. Robert McCreight and Curry Mayer have respectfully called-out the elephant in the room regarding seasoned emergency managers, academics, and those fresh-out of school and why we need to quickly gel that effort for future success. There are parts of this book that every emergency manager needs to take to their elected officials, governors, and chief executive officers to understand that failure to resource is or will be the main ingredient for an even nastier response or recovery in the near future. This book is exceptional, thought provoking, and full of take-aways. It's a mission-critical read for anyone working or considering a career in this arena. For the experienced emergency manager this book is a wake-up call!"" Dan E. Summers, CEM, FPEM Director, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, Florida ""In the first minutes of opening this book, I found myself reaching for the notepad and highlighter because this book provides the seasoned emergency manager and the newbie the groundwork for where we are and where we need to be. Robert McCreight and Curry Mayer have respectfully called-out the elephant in the room regarding seasoned emergency managers, academics, and those fresh-out of school and why we need to quickly gel that effort for future success. There are parts of this book that every emergency manager needs to take to their elected officials, governors, and chief executive officers to understand that failure to resource is or will be the main ingredient for an even nastier response or recovery in the near future. This book is exceptional, thought provoking, and full of take-aways. It's a mission-critical read for anyone working or considering a career in this arena. For the experienced emergency manager this book is a wake-up call!"" Dan E. Summers, CEM, FPEM Director, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, Florida --Dan E. Summers, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, FL, Director, CEM, FPEM ""This book provides the seasoned emergency manager and the newbie the groundwork for where we are and where we need to be. It is exceptional, thought-provoking, and full of takeaways."" --Dan E. Summers, Director, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, Florida ""This book provides the seasoned emergency manager and the newbie the groundwork for where we are and where we need to be. It is exceptional, thought-provoking, and full of takeaways."" --Dan E. Summers, Director, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, Florida --Dan E. Summers, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, FL, Director, CEM, FPEM ""This is a must-read for current and prospective emergency managers, researchers, and planners. It highlights the leadership traits, skills, and knowledge that will be instrumental in dealing with future disasters."" --Dorothy E. Miller, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Round Rock Fire Department/HSEM, Texas ""This is a must-read for current and prospective emergency managers, researchers, and planners. It highlights the leadership traits, skills, and knowledge that will be instrumental in dealing with future disasters."" --Dorothy E. Miller, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Round Rock Fire Department/HSEM, Texas --Dorothy E. Miller, City of Round Rock Fire Department/HSEM, Texas, Emergency Management Coordinator"

Crucial reading for anyone currently working in the all-hazard emergency management fields and future practitioners. It is authoritative and sobering. Readable, compelling, and timely. --Linda Crerar, Director, The Center of Excellence for Homeland Security-Emergency Management--Linda Crerar, The Center of Excellence for Homeland Security-Emergency Management, Director This book provides the seasoned emergency manager and the newbie the groundwork for where we are and where we need to be. It is exceptional, thought-provoking, and full of takeaways. --Dan E. Summers, Director, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, Florida--Dan E. Summers, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, FL, Director, CEM, FPEM This is a must-read for current and prospective emergency managers, researchers, and planners. It highlights the leadership traits, skills, and knowledge that will be instrumental in dealing with future disasters. --Dorothy E. Miller, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Round Rock Fire Department/HSEM, Texas--Dorothy E. Miller, City of Round Rock Fire Department/HSEM, Texas, Emergency Management Coordinator

"""Crucial reading for anyone currently working in the all-hazard emergency management fields and future practitioners. It is authoritative and sobering. Readable, compelling, and timely."" --Linda Crerar, Director, The Center of Excellence for Homeland Security-Emergency Management ""In the first minutes of opening this book, I found myself reaching for the notepad and highlighter because this book provides the seasoned emergency manager and the newbie the groundwork for where we are and where we need to be. Robert McCreight and Curry Mayer have respectfully called-out the elephant in the room regarding seasoned emergency managers, academics, and those fresh-out of school and why we need to quickly gel that effort for future success. There are parts of this book that every emergency manager needs to take to their elected officials, governors, and chief executive officers to understand that failure to resource is or will be the main ingredient for an even nastier response or recovery in the near future. This book is exceptional, thought provoking, and full of take-aways. It's a mission-critical read for anyone working or considering a career in this arena. For the experienced emergency manager this book is a wake-up call!"" Dan E. Summers, CEM, FPEM Director, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, Florida ""This book provides the seasoned emergency manager and the newbie the groundwork for where we are and where we need to be. It is exceptional, thought-provoking, and full of takeaways."" --Dan E. Summers, Director, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Naples, Florida ""This is a must-read for current and prospective emergency managers, researchers, and planners. It highlights the leadership traits, skills, and knowledge that will be instrumental in dealing with future disasters."" --Dorothy E. Miller, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Round Rock Fire Department/HSEM, Texas"

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After serving the United States government at the State Department and other federal agencies over a 35 year career, Dr. McCreight retired in 2004 and served as a consultant for major homeland security and national defense contractors. His professional career includes work as an intelligence analyst. treaty negotiator, arms control delegate to the UN, counter-terrorism advisor, political-military affairs analyst and Deputy Director of Global Scientific Exchanges at State Department. During his service at State Department he was a senior Soviet military analyst with INR and specialized in the assessment of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. Later in his professional career he performed assignments where he either managed or coordinated international post-disaster relief and humanitarian operations, developed peacekeeping policy, promoted global science and technology cooperation projects and helped design treaty verification systems. At the middle of his career he also participated in the design and coordination of White House nuclear readiness command crisis exercises during the Reagan administration. During his federal career he designed, developed and coordinated well over 26 cabinet level strategic nuclear preparedness exercises, worked on Presidential Protection and Survivability Programs and directed the operation of several dozen senior-level military exercises involving theoretical force-on-force scenarios between the United States and the Soviet Union. This followed several years of designing and evaluating unit combat exercises for the U.S. Army. McCreight spent 27 years of combined active and reserve military service concurrently with his civilian work in U.S. Army Special Operations and has devoted 15 years to teaching graduate school as an adjunct at Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, and Virginia Tech Universities in subjects as diverse as disaster and emergency management, strategic intelligence, nonproliferation policy, homeland security policies, terrorism analysis, intelligence analysis, scientific issues and defense policy and assessing WMD threats. He completed his doctoral degree in Public Administration in 1989 and remains active in graduate education programs in emergency and crisis management as well as security studies and terrorism analysis. He has also written and published over 29 articles on chemical weapons use, disaster management, disaster recovery, post-strike attribution, biological weapons threats to homeland security, crisis management, WMD scenario development and collegiate educational strategies for developing future crisis managers for government service.

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