CHAPTER 13
‘Them and Us’: emergency planning and response in a social perspective
Is the continued and increased concentration on post-emergency management itself the greatest impediment to effective emergency planning and response? Can emergency management ever be wholly effective while it excludes pre-emergency management as the crucial response to hazard?
Post-emergency management is often perceived as inclusive of a totality of management for all phases of emergency, both before and after. In the popular exposure that emergency management thus enjoys, it also inadvertently and dangerously absolves all other sectors of their responsibilities with regard to hazards. As a response to hazard management, nothing could be further ...
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