Course features

Disaster Fundamentals and Lab Orientation

A short introduction to how disasters differ from everyday emergencies, how hazards become disasters, and the disaster cycle that reveals how disasters continually shape our lives. It also serves as an orientation to the Disaster Coordination Lab and the work we are building together.
Write your awesome label here.
course contents

What's included?

What is a Disaster? 

Fundamentals defines disaster and differentiates from other disruptive events. 

Common terms and principles

The Fundamentals course builds a shared foundation of terms and principles that support disaster interoperability across organizations and nations, and most importantly with the people and communities living through disaster.

Community

Every Fundamentals purchase includes access to the Lab's community space — a place to share practices, discuss terms and tools, and work through disaster management questions with others doing the same work.

Course Lessons

Meet the instructor

Shannon McNamee

As an expert in disaster management, Shannon is particularly interested in how to enable individuals and communities in disasters. In her classes, she provides the tools and disaster literacy to help build better disaster management programs. 
Created with