Emergency Management and the New Administration

President Obama will enter office at a time of problems unprecedented

in number, complexity, and concern for the well-being of the nation.

Among them is national security, both from international and domestic

threats.The nation became fixated on the threat of terrorism after 9/11 and was

jolted again by natural hazards in 2005: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, andWilma.

The interaction of natural hazards (such as hurricanes) and human actions (such

as engineering failures, the lack of wise land-u