Chapter 15Emergency Response as a Project

DOI: 10.1201/9781003201557-18

(With) long-term projects, you have the ability to really plan more thoroughly and create more steps and …more of a thoughtful, staggered process, and then in an emergency you are really taking the steps, but putting it in a really compressed timeline. Coming up with the defined deliverables, data needs, analytics, and incremental steps help you say this is who we need to bring together to come to a consensus. We identify the issue, we come up with an analysis or review process. I mean all of that is built into the outcome that you desire. It’s all project management.

Interview with Heather Roiter, Executive Director of Hazard Mitigation and Recovery, New York City Emergency ...

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