About This Report  iii

Figures and Tables  xi

Summary  v

CHAPTER 1

Introduction  1

The Benefits of a Synthesized Body of Research  2

Focus of This Effort  3

Past Attempts to Map the Body of EM Research Have Been Limited  4

Methods  8

Organization of This Report  10

CHAPTER 2

It Was Never Going to Be Easy to Identify the EM Body of Research; It Was Not, and the Implications  11

How We Identified a Body of EM Research  11

What We Found  14

Implications of What We Found  16

Conclusion  18

CHAPTER 3

EM Research: Not Organized for EM, or by EM, and the Implications  21

What We Did to Map the Body of EM Research  21

What We Found  21

Implications of What We Found  24

Conclusion  28

CHAPTER 4

EM Research: Not Produced for EM, or by EM, and the Implications  29

What We Did to Map the Body of EM Research Production  29

What We Found  30

Implications of What We Found  36

CHAPTER 5

Takeaways and Recommendations for NDEMU, the Planned Office of Disaster Research and Innovation, and Those in Research Production  43

The Body of Research Available to Inform NDEMU and EM More Broadly Is Staggeringly Large  43

Identifying EM Research Will Continue to Be Challenging  43

Barriers to Research Informing Practice May Be More Structural Than Cultural  44

NDEMU Will Have to Adapt to the Research Landscape  45

Next Steps and Conclusion  50