You may want to take a look at Emergency Management as a profession.
http://www.iaem.com/
http://www.nemaweb.org/
http://www.fema.gov/

Edit...
On the second thought, this may be a bit different, since managers actually manage disasters when they already happened. But this still may be a start.


Edited by redflare (05/24/07 06:07 AM)
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