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Mitigation and
Preparedness
Eugene Tucker, CPP, CFE, CBCP
Contributing author
‘‘When I said my business was preventing disasters, a woman from Hong Kong
asked me, ‘How can you stop a typhoon?’ Of course, I can’t, and neither ca n
anyone else on this planet.’’
—John Laye, FBCI Contigency Management Consultants, Morage, CA
Mitigation and prepa redness are two of the four components that compose the concept of
comprehensive emergency management (CEM). The remaining components are response
and recovery. Because the term has its origin in governmental emergency management,
recovery in this sense means the reestablishment of infrastructure, the local postdisaster ...