The purpose of this book is to define emergency management as a profession something that has been discussed much in recent years but not brought to a satisfactory completion the linkage of emergency management to sustainability ie the defining of it as a sustainability profession is presented as the necessary linkage that potentially orients all of the professional skill development and the work of the trade and transforms it into a profession. Emergency management and sustainability defining a profession by robert o schneider published 2013 204 pp 7 x 10 1 il 2 tables description emergency managers are faced with natural and human made problems that are constantly evolving and changing the footprints of disaster the complexity of these problems is more than matched by the complexity of the physical and social systems . Emergency management and sustainability defining a profession robert o schneider limited preview 2015 bibliographic information title emergency management and sustainability defining a profession author robert o schneider edition illustrated publisher charles c thomas publisher limited 2013 isbn 0398087636 9780398087630 length 189 pages subjects political science . Isbn 9780398087630 0398087636 oclc number 849641579 description xiv 189 pages 26 cm contents 1 emergency management trade or profession 2mitigation and sustainability it takes a village 3emergency management ethics and sustainability 4emergency management sustainability and climate warming up to the challenge 5human made hazards and sustainability 6