"This book explores what emergency management is, including describing why public policy and traditional reactionary approaches to emergency management have caused the profession to grow and develop in a different direction. The volume also describes thefundamental practices used within emergency management and that constitute their operational approach; i.e. prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation"--

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Michael R. Mabe is the Executive Director of the Chesterfield County Public Library in Chesterfield County, VA. Mike has worked in a variety of executive managerial positions include Assistant Director, Dauphin County Library System, Harrisburg, PA; Dean of Library Services, San Juan College, Farmington, NM and Department Manager, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT. He holds a BS from the University of Utah; MPA from Brigham Young University; and an MLIS Brigham Young University. Mike has presented at state and national associations on a variety of topics including, quality management, strategic planning, emergency services, staff training and library innovation. He has also published in the areas emergency services in public libraries and strategic planning. Mike and his wife are the parents of five children and 20 grandchildren. He enjoys woodworking, writing, travelling and being with his grandkids.

Emily Ashley is the Emergency Management Coordinator for Chesterfield County, Virginia. In this role she has served on the Virginia Emergency Management Association Certification Committee and Chair of the Central Virginia Emergency Management Alliance. In 2016 members of Chesterfield Countys Mass Care Committee won a National Association of Counties award for the use of libraries and staff post disaster. Before coming to Chesterfield in August of 2011, Emily spent 8 years in various roles of Emergency Management in the Hampton Roads, Virginia. Emily has especially enjoyed emergency management projects related to special needs, catastrophic planning, continuity planning, and mitigation. Emily holds a Bachelors Degree in Geography from Missouri State University, Masters Degree in Public Administration from Old Dominion University and professional certification as a Virginia Professional Emergency Manager.

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