ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview of key concepts and lessons from emergency management that will serve to support homeland security operation. It discusses how one understands hazards and the types of hazards one faces in emergency management and homeland security. The chapter introduces key concepts such as the emergency management cycle and reviews the various stakeholders with which one interacts in dealing with emergency management. Emergency management scholarship provides some key tools in understanding how to carry out these important tasks, including mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Resilience seeks to integrate activities and processes across the various phases—particularly mitigation and recovery—to develop a better, broader understanding of the needs of community. The contemporary resilience approach argues that one should include a wide range of stakeholders in emergency management processes. The chapter concludes with a survey of the various types of stakeholders that one should consider along with the participation of these groups.
