There are many potential challenges to be faced by the field of emergency management in the ever changing and growing world we live in today. Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola share their top five challenges for emergency management as leadership, funding, federal recovery assistance programs, partnerships, and communications and information management (2013). All of these areas are vitally important to the current field and future of emergency management, and must continue to be improved upon whenever possible. However, I think a more appropriate order of importance of these issues would be leadership, funding, partnerships, communication and information management, and federal recovery assistance programs.
Leaderships is easily the most important…