{"id":4081,"date":"2024-10-24T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/mais\/?page_id=4081"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:37:19","slug":"ma-in-disaster-and-emergency-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/mais\/program-source\/ma-in-disaster-and-emergency-management\/","title":{"rendered":"MA in Disaster and Emergency Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Disaster & Crisis Management<\/a>Introductory<\/a>MA in Disaster and Emergency Management<\/a>Online<\/a>Stand-Alone Course<\/a><\/div>\n
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Examines the socially constructed relationship between hazards and disasters. Introduces the key stakeholders involved with emergency management, and explores the historic and contemporary principles, policies, and legal frameworks guiding the field of practice. Analyzes different paradigms for conceptualizing the practice of disaster and emergency management in Canadian and international contexts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Disaster & Crisis Management<\/a>In-Person Residency<\/a>Introductory<\/a>MA in Disaster and Emergency Management<\/a>Online<\/a>Pre-Requisite Needed<\/a><\/div>\n
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Analyzes contextual factors that need to be taken into account by emergency managers when developing hazard mitigation strategies, and preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters. Explores competencies required to effectively engage stakeholders and take into account the diversity of perspectives present in the multi-sector, multi-agency, collaborative environments that characterize disaster and emergency management in the 21st century. Examines characteristics and processes of ethical decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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