What are /r/EmergencyManagement's favorite Products & Services?

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One people’s freedom fighters are another people’s terrorists… I highly recommend Robert Pape’s book, “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”. Similar methodology of threat assessment can be applied to asymmetric conflicts involving the occupation of a disorganized country/region. I would be curious if the OP had a before/after of the fall of the Soviet Union. Interesting map!

Emergency management is about helping the people who help people. To that end, it's also about answering two questions:

1. Why do bad things happen?
2. What should we do about them?

That's it. Maybe it's too simplistic of a view, but everything in our field boils down to those three points. One of my FAVORITE things about EM is how broad it can be - we've got the ability and opportunity to work on some of the most interesting and important problems in the world, and we're really only limited by our own creativity when it comes to pulling in experts from other fields.

I made a post about it in the sub, but my week has been spent talking to chemists about the feasibility of atmospheric water generators as a source of reliable water-making in humid environments. That's fucking cool. Point being, it's a choose-your-own-adventure field. I'll definitely include some recommendations, but if you can find a way to make anything relevant to those three points, it's relevant to our field.

What is a Disaster? by Enrico Quarantelli is the Emergency/Disaster Manager's bible, as far as I'm concerned. I reread this at least once a year, and I'm always picking up new things from it. Quarantelli is a big deal. As far as the academic side of the house goes, he's the one who developed the foundation that drives pretty much everything we do, operationally speaking. Disasters are a social phenomenon. If we don't start with that, we'll never fully understand the problem set.

There are other good books that are easier reads. Five Days At Memorial is great, Isaac's Storm is a good one, and The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley is terrific. Each book is generally about telling the story of different disasters.

Besides that, google and google.scholar are your friends! Don't be afraid to reach out to people. LinkedIn is another great resource.

Am in school right now for dem and we use this book a lot https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-International-Disaster-Management-Coppola/dp/0128014776&ved=2ahUKEwjm_dKR5Y33AhWlUt8KHfgQDe0QFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2ScspTxiUYoUU_Z99W04oW

As well as stuff centered around the sendai framework from undrr

I just ordered The Hot Zone . It's about the origins of the Ebola virus (written way before this recent outbreak).

Regarding your second question, those trainings definitely help you network. Don't be afraid to enroll if you can--no one else will be thinking "oh, he shouldn't be here." Just show up, listen, learn, participate as much as you can, and don't be afraid to shake some hands.
Also, try and get to some conferences. There's so many ways to meet people there.