Hi all, and welcome to our last episode on the course material! In this podcast, we will cover disaster and emergency management with a focus on the emergency management approach, data on different natural disasters, and review of a whole host of challenges that we can and do experience when we handle a disaster or emergency (things like fragmentation, the issue-attention cycle, and the Samaritan's dilemma). As you listen to the episode and work through the slides, I'd like for you to think about the ways we approach natural disasters (like floods or hurricanes) and how we approach man-made disasters (think here about things like terrorism or events like a nuclear meltdown). Should we approach these in the same way? And why or why not? Thanks to you all for sticking with this podcast--I hope it has helped to walk you through US public policy!