The rapid development of emergency management research and practice in Europe and America is partially attribute to their booming academic community. Therefore，it is necessary to review of the process of the emergency management academic community development in Europe，which may help Chinese colleagues to seek lessons from the European part. This paper reviews three aspects relevant to the development of European academic community of crisis research，academic institutions development，major academic journals and classics of crisis research. Lastly，this paper discusses the challenges faced by the European academic community in the following three aspects，institutional arrangement，research method and data source，major academic networks.