Emergency Management Future

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Predicting the future is a tricky undertaking, but by looking at the recent past we can predict with relative certainty that these issues will come to the fore or continue to gain traction for the emergency management and public safety worlds…. Cutting the costs of recovery, assessing risk and communicating the way people prefer to communicate will continue to be key elements of managing natural and man-made disasters (para. 1).
The future of emergency management will be shaped by 1.) New technologies, 2.) The cost of disaster will be enormous and will exceed current budgets, 3.) Many in the emergency management field will be retiring and the new generation will bring different styles and new and different backgrounds …show more content…

The origin of emergency management was about reaction/response. In the beginning, the military was responsible. They concentrated on responding to wars or externally initiated attacks. The principal emphasis was managing post-event response, and little attention was given to preparation or optimization. Then, near the end of the Cold War, emergency management grew to be involved with or to include the consideration of natural and manmade events. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was founded in 1979, and during this time the four-phase cycle was …show more content…

Predictive analytics can run simulations to determine the outcomes of upgraded structures and planning. Flood mapping and geographic statistics systems can help in floodplain and insurance planning. During the preparedness phase, technologies enables numerous features of planned emergency drills to be automated, increasing the speed at which they can be run and decreasing the number of resources needed to complete an effective drill. Add to that, software and other technologies that will be able to assist in managing the planning and response, which would enable a faster assessment of current capabilities. In the response phase, I would take an educated guess and say the analytics we currently have will greatly improve which will assist in predicting the outcome for choosing the best response. Finally, technologies could bring about a more refined systems for evaluating the success of a response and forecasting the long-term recovery plan years

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