This small business, located in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, specializes in disaster research and consulting. The firm has been in operation for more than 18 years. This website provides details about capabilities, experience, and recently completed projects.

Claire B. Rubin, President, is a social scientist with 30 years of experience in the fields of emergency management and homeland security. Her experience ranges from independent researcher, consultant, and educator. Since 1998, she has been affiliated with the The George Washington University, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management; currently she is a Visiting Research Scholar. She has written about 70 publications and presented numerous talks and lectures on emergency management and homeland security topics.

For the past few years, Ms Rubin and her colleagues have focused on producing a variety of educational products and services in the fields of homeland security and emergency management. Ongoing projects the Time Line Series and a new website providing citations and resources dealing the community recovery from major disasters. See Disaster Recovery Resources.

Additionally, Ms. Rubin is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, an electronic journal which is now in its fifth year. JHSEM has become the most eminent independent, peer-reviewed publication in the field. See Selected Works of Claire B. Rubin at the special website maintained by Bepress, the publisher of JHSEM.

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Recent Book:

Emergency Management: The American Experience, 1900-2005. (2007) Claire B. Rubin, editor. For more information, go to the website of the Public Entity Risk Institute. [This book won the SENRA Book Award in 2008, from the American Society of Public Administration.]

Note that a new Century Time Line chart is now available to accompany the book; details are on the PERI website provided above.

6/29/08