Emergency Management

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Contact Information
Auburn University OPCE
opce@auburn.edu

Phone
334-844-5100

Address
Auburn, AL

Program Description

Emergency Management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. The profession seeks to promote safer, less vulnerable communities with the capacity to cope with hazards and disasters by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to protect and mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters.

Last Updated: September 3, 2024