ABSTRACT
Introduction ........................................................................................................ 2 Social Media ........................................................................................................ 3 Crowdsourcing ................................................................................................... 4 Cybersecurity ...................................................................................................... 5 Mitigation ............................................................................................................ 7 Sustainability ...................................................................................................... 7 Privatization ........................................................................................................ 9 Nongovernmental Organizations .................................................................... 9 Climate Change ................................................................................................ 10 Terrorism ........................................................................................................... 12 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 14 References ......................................................................................................... 15
Emergency management in the United States has continued to evolve over the past several hundred years. During its formative years in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this evolution was largely characterized by changes in risk: from the burden being borne solely by the individual to that of shared risk by communities, by states, and by the federal government. Over time, disasters and catastrophes spurred governments at all levels to assume increasing amounts of risk through the crafting and implementation of legislation that shifted the immense burden from the individual to the government.
