December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
17h 8m
English
book
Disaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for Resilience, 2nd Edition
by David A. McEntire
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HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION
Tools for Effective Operations
Starting Point
Pretest to assess your knowledge on how to harness technology and organization.Determine where you need to concentrate your effort.
What You'll Learn in This Chapter
- Importance of technology for emergency managers
- The benefit of decision support systems
- Principles of incident command and the nature of emergency operations centers (EOCs)
- Value of mutual aid, the Standard Emergency Management System (SEMS), and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact
- Principles of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Response Framework, and the National Recovery Framework
After Studying This Chapter, You'll Be Able To
- Apply technology in response and recovery operations.
- Examine the usefulness of geographic information systems.
- Use incident command in time of a disaster.
- Demonstrate how to run an EOC.
- Employ mutual aid, SEMS, and NIMS.
- Appraise the National Response Framework and the National Recovery Framework.
Goals and Outcomes
- Evaluate how technology is used after disasters.
- Compare different types of technological tools.
- Manage the scene of a disaster in an effective manner.
- Work closely with others in the EOC.
- Organize response operations with nearby jurisdictions.
- Request disaster assistance from other state governments.
- Oversee municipal recovery with federal disaster assistance.
INTRODUCTION
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