### Question
Can you define what emergency management means?


### Answer
**Emergency management** is defined as the following in *6 U.S.C. § 701*:

> the governmental function that coordinates and integrates all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters

#### Citation:
  - *6 U.S.C. § 701*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 2-NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT**

