Disaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for Resilience, 2nd Edition

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ENHANCING DISASTER RESILIENCE

Preparedness, Spontaneous Planning, Improvisation, Leadership, and Professionalism

Starting Point

Pretest to assess your knowledge of how to enhance disaster resilience.Determine where you need to concentrate your effort.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter

• The need for preparedness and methods for acquiring resources
• EOC activation and management
• The importance of hazard and vulnerability assessments
• The components of emergency operations plans (EOPs)
• The benefit of training and types of exercises
• Ways to promote community education
• The value of spontaneous planning and improvisation
• Principles of leadership

After Studying This Chapter, You'll Be Able To

• Apply the concept of preparedness and be aware of different resources.
• Understand how to establish an EOC.
• Examine who can help you assess hazards and vulnerability.
• Analyze the benefit and limitations of planning, training, and exercises.
• Recognize the value of disaster education.
• Explain why departing from plans and SOPs could be advantageous.
• Illustrate the importance of professionalism.

Goals and Outcomes

• Propose ways to increase preparedness in your community.
• Write grants and manage budgets.
• Design and operate an EOC.
• Formulate a hazard and vulnerability assessment.
• Create an EOP.
• Propose training and exercise programs for your community.
• Prepare the public for disasters.
• Plan ways to improvise when the situation requires it.
• Evaluate the benefit of leadership and professionalism.