Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: interdependent infrastructure layers and a failure jumping between them
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
Preparedness is a structure and a rehearsal.
Map preparedness, emergency and crisis management on a real place
The model
From an evacuation order to a cleared zone: how compliance, mobilisation time and road capacity set the clearance time an order must allow
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From an evacuation order to a cleared zone: how compliance, mobilisation time and road capacity set the clearance time an order must allow
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Incident command and multi-agency coordination; Crisis leadership and exercise design.
For emergency managers, incident commanders, continuity planners and public communicators who prepare organisations and authorities to coordinate and lead through an emergency.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Preparedness, emergency and crisis management's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow preparedness, emergency and crisis management on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
Nexus Standards at the AcademyThe Academy proposes how each discipline teaches toward the Nexus Standards; the mapping is open for review by the editors of the Nexus Standards.
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Preparedness, emergency and crisis management.
Search termsPreparedness, emergency and crisis management; The emergency management cycle; Incident command and multi-agency coordination; Contingency planning; Exercises and after-action review; Crisis leadership and decision makingDerived from the Risk Academy page on Preparedness, emergency and crisis management.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Preparedness, emergency and crisis management, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
Recent developments in preparedness, emergency and crisis management, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
The courses from connected disciplines below also teach this field.
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 2 |
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 1 |
| Geo quiz | Check spatial reasoning on where hazards and systems meet | 1 |
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
Nexus Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.
Start with Quarantelli, then Perry, then Boin.
Nexus Reports is the Consortium's quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, labs, hours and level.