DISASTER SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT

Disaster Science and Management is an interdisciplinary program which provides students interested in emergency management-related careers in the public, not for profit, and private sectors with:

- A broad understanding of the nature and impact of disasters on the natural, built and human environments;
- A basis for establishing strategies to effectively plan for disasters, mitigate the adverse effects of disasters, respond to disasters, and recover from disasters.

Minors in Disaster Science and Management (DSM) are currently available at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. A proposed concentration in DSM (part of a proposed new undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies) was approved by the LSU Board of Supervisors two years ago, but implementation has been held up due to some problem with the language requirement in the Interdisciplinary Studies degree (unrelated to the DSM Concentration). It is uncertain when this problem will be resolved.

Funding to support the DSM academic program has come from a number of sources, including:

College of Arts and Sciences
Center for Computation and Technology (CCT), and its predecessor
LSU Center for Applied Information Technology and Learning (LSU CAPITAL)

Risk Laboratory

LSU Hurricane Center

National Center for Security Research and Training (NCSRT)