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Canadian Disaster Management Textbook

Table of contents

Introduction
The History of Emergency Management in Canada
The Canadian Response to International Disasters
Canadian Legislation & Policy
Municipal Emergency Management
The Canadian Emergency Management 'framework'
1. The Evolving Roles of Emergency Managers
1. The Military and Disaster Management: A Canadian Perspective on the Issue
The Hazardousness of Canada
Vulnerability
Understanding Vulnerability to Understand Disasters
The Disaster Management Cycle
a. Mitigation
1. School Seismic Safety in British Columbia: A Grassroots Success
c. Response
1. Mass Casuality Management and Medical Surge
c. Response
1. Forensics if Necessary: Similarities and Changes in Canadian Mass Death Incidents
d. Recovery
1. Post-Disaster Recovery and Vulnerability
d. Recovery
1. Household Economic Disaster Recovery
Disaster Case Studies
The Local and Global Outbreak Response to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto
Special Topics

2009 Annual Symposium

Conference presentations

SILOING AMONGST PRACTITIONERS OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND OTHER RISK-BASED DISCIPLINES	Mark W. Baker
Vulnerability Assessment using GIS:The 2008 Toronto Propane Explosion	Costas Armenakis and Niru Nirupama
Canada’s National Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction – Historical and International (UN) Contexts	Emdad Hague
Alberta Health Services Emergency / Disaster Preparedness	Shawn Grono
Multi-Agency Situational Awareness Systems (MASAS)	Ernest MacGillivray
Turtle Mountain Early Warning and Emergency response	Fransisco Moreno
Interdisciplinary, Inter-Jurisdictional and Inter-Cultural Dialogue: Towards Risk Resiliency	Brenda L. Murphy
Using Geospatial Systems For Emergency Management	Terri Savitsky
Evaluation of risk mitigation systems for critical infrastructure	Bert Struik and John Clague
Public and Personal Notifications U of A ALERT	Laird Burton
Weather Vigilence : Providing Effective Weather Warnings	Olivier Gagnon
Evaluating economic losses from potential hazard events: an example of using Hazus-MH in Canada	Nicky Hastings, Murray Journeay, and Sonia Talwar
Multi-Agency Situational Awareness - Enabling a “Unifying Principle” to Enhancing National Interoperability	Jack Pagotto
Canada’s National Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction	Brenda L. Murphy
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: EXPANDING OUR VISION BASED ON LESSONS LEARNED*	Thomas E. Drabek
The Warning Preparedness Meteorologists Program of the Meteorological Service of Canada	Denis Gosselin
High Impact Weather Studies : Helping to Indentify Risk & Develop Adaptation Strategies to Minimize Risks	Joanne Klaassen
Advances in Communications & Collaboration: Location-based Information Sharing for Multi-Agency Situational Awareness	Ken Marshall
Risk Reduction Platform : Recommanded Model	Ron Kuban
Recovery Decision Making and Communication Structures- Lessons Learned during the 2009 Manitoba Floods	Lee Spencer
CDSSU - CRHnet Symposium	Cathy Bulych and John Webb
Collaboration & integration:The ESS Experience in Nova Scotia	John Webb
Emergency Social Services (ESS)	Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services

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