Introduction
Throughout the history of emergency management, a reactive “all-hazards preparedness” approach has been dominant, with emergency managers existing quietly in the background and only coming to the forefront of decision making when a crisis was actually occurring.
As the field has evolved, emergency managers have increasingly become well-educated professionals, and a simple, reactive approach has become increasingly inappropriate. The modern Emergency Manager’s practice is increasingly proactive, with mitigation becoming the dominant issue in the field and preparedness, although highly necessary, being relegated to a strategy for use when mitigation was not possible for whatever reason.
As already ...
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