Disaster Response and Recovery, 3rd Edition

12Foreseeing the Future: Prior Lessons, Unaddressed Risks, and Rising Vulnerability

STARTING POINT

Pretest to assess your knowledge of how to deal with future disasters.

Determine where you need to concentrate your effort.

What You’ll Learn in This Chapter

• How to respond to different hazards and threats.
• The interaction of primary, associated and secondary hazards.
• The nature of industrial hazards.
• How to prepare for and respond to mass shootings.
• What to expect after a terrorist attack.
• Unfolding risks and insufficiently recognized hazards.
• Reasons for rising vulnerability.

After Studying This Chapter, You’ll Be Able To

• Examine the complexities of disasters.
• Appraise the danger of HazMat incidents.
• Explore the similarities of mass shootings and other disasters.
• Protect evidence and first responders after a terrorist attack.
• Demonstrate ways to prepare for biological threats.
• Compare and contrast different technological hazards.
• Analyze additional causes of vulnerability.

Goals and Outcomes

• Manage natural disasters successfully.
• Respond effectively to technological disasters.
• Collaborate with law enforcement after mass shootings.
• Coordinate with public health officials in relevant events.
• Prepare for possible biological threats.
• Plan how to address environmental risks and crises.
• Reduce vulnerability through proactive and holistic efforts.

INTRODUCTION

As an emergency manager, you must not only foster resilience before, during and immediately after any particular ...