1). The ability to exhibit resiliency is determined by the properly preparing, planning, executing a recovery from abnormal events. Resilience is the ability to anticipate risk, limit impact, and bounce back rapidly through survival, adaptability, evolution, and growth in the face of turbulent change (Community and Regional Resilience Institute, 2017).
By utilize a tactful and strategic methodology individuals, communities and organization can are able to establish an effective effort to build resilience among their demographics. Resilience offers the ability to minimize the consequences and disruption disaster offer. Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. For mitigation to be effective
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is in a state of readiness to contain the effects of a forecasted disastrous event to minimize loss of life, injury, and damage to property, the purpose is to provide rescue, relief, rehabilitation, and other services following an act of disaster, an effective preparedness strategy has the capability and resources to continue to sustain its essential functions with minimal alterations or stressors (businessdisctionary,2017). The last recognized phase is the response. By having the other phases of recovery, the response phase can be simply a matter of logistical supports. Response actions may include activating the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), evacuating threatened populations, opening shelters and providing mass care, emergency rescue and medical care, firefighting, and urban search and rescue (Sant LouiseCounty,2017). The response phases offer a live timeline of how measures are taken to ensure the most immediate Reponses are being utilized. A well-rehearsed emergency plan developed as part of the preparedness phase enables efficient coordination of resources re, emergency rescue and medical care, firefighting, and urban search and rescue (Sant …show more content…
Actions taken to return a community to normal or near-normal conditions, including the restoration of basic services and the repair of physical, social and economic damages (Sant LouiseCounty,2017). In addition to all the other phases recovery is a strategic method utilizing various aspect and level of participation to complete. Recovery overall will include debris clean up, financial restoration, and social reconstruction all depending upon the needs and extent of disaster. Though response and recovery share similar trait, they are very different and beneficial in two major ways, recovery efforts are dealing with the aftermath math of the immediate response, While the response may temporarily add relief or rectify the issue, Recovery is the rebuilding and systematic approach to restoring normalcy to the communities
The National response plan outlines four key actions the disaster coordinator should take. They are gaining and maintaining situational awareness, activate and deploy key resources and capabilities, coordinating response actions and demobilizing. Throughout the response it is essential that responders have access to critical information. During the initial response effort the situation is will change rapidly. Situational awareness starts at the incident site. For this reason it is essential that decision makers have access to the right information at the right time. By establishing an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) all key responders are brought ...
Mitigation: Measures taken to lessen the consequences of disaster events upon our citizens and our
Both man-made and natural disasters are often devastating, resource draining and disruptive. Having a basic plan ready for these types of disaster events is key to the success of executing and implementing, as well as assessing the aftermath. There are many different ways to create an emergency operations plan (EOP) to encompass a natural and/or man-made disaster, including following the six stage planning process, collection of information, and identification of threats and hazards. The most important aspect of the US emergency management system in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to man-made and natural disasters is the creation, implementation and assessment of a community’s EOP.
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The major preparedness measures taken include strategic planning for disaster, making changes in procurement procedures, developing a communication plan, and investigating insurance coverage.
Communities must come together in order to be aware of the steps that must be taken to reduce or prevent risk. “The guidance, programs, processes, and systems that support each component of the National Preparedness System enable a collaborative, whole community approach to national preparedness that engages individuals, families, communities, private and nonprofit sectors, faith based organizations and all levels of government.” (FEMA, 2011). Resources within a community are prioritized and customized based on community-based issues and local security programs. The resources used as the front line of defense are first responders, such as police officers, firefighters and medical personnel. The resources are provided and prioritized based on the priority of threat and risks to a specific community. Therefore, the threats and risks targeted towards a community must be analyzed and acknowledged in order to apply the correct resources to the opposing prioritized threats. Disasters and emergencies typically begin at the local level and eventually require resources from state and federal
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In the aftermath of the devastation, preparation and response recommendations have been developed and incorporated into procedures aid in the hope that they will prevent
...r Recovery has become increasingly important and has gained momentum due to the occurrence of rapid and disastrous events worldwide. This literature review presents varied perspectives and definitions on components of the recovery process.
Finally, safety is the number one priority in order to survive and recover from any major catastrophic event. Education is the key to prevention. Know your local area and common disasters that occurs in that particular area. Knowing what they are and how to protect yourself will in terms help the recovery and healing process faster and easier for you and your family.
However emerging literature (?) suggests that it is not fully possible to return to what existed before as such situation would reproduce its previous hazardous vulnerability. In this sense, recovery can be seen as a forward looking process of resilient community building supported by the effective public reconstruction policy. In other words, it is seen as an opportunity to ‘build back better (BBB)’- a concept that refers to the possibilities for enhancing resilience across the community’s physical, social and economic states (Cinton , 2006; Kennedy , et al., 2008; Fan , 2013). In the conferred sense of definition, BBB is defined as the use of the recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction phases after a disaster to increase the resilience of nations and communities through integrating disaster risk reduction measures into the restoration of physical infrastructure and societal systems, and into the revitalization of livelihoods, economies and the environment (UNISDR, 2009). Similarly, BBB is used as the concept to describe recovery measures that contribute to the reduction of future disaster risk (Sendai Framework ,
Disaster Recovery Planning is the critical factor that can prevent headaches or nightmares experienced by an organization in times of disaster. Having a disaster recovery plan marks the difference between organizations that can successfully manage crises with minimal cost, effort and with maximum speed, and those organizations that cannot. By having back-up plans, not only for equipment and network recovery, but also detailed disaster recovery plans that precisely outline what steps each person involved in recovery efforts should undertake, an organization can improve their recovery time and minimize the disrupted time for their normal business functions. Thus it is essential that disaster recovery plans are carefully laid out and carefully updated regularly. Part of the plan should include a system where regular training occurs for network engineers and managers. In the disaster recovery process extra attention should also be paid to training any new employees who will have a critical role in this function. Also, the plan should require having the appropriate people actually practice what they would do to help recover business function should a disaster occur. Some organizations find it helpful to do this on a quarterly or semi-annual basis so that the plan stays current with the organization’s needs.
Communities throughout the country and the world are susceptible to disasters. The environment and location of a community often predisposes a greater susceptibility to the type of disaster. For example Central Pennsylvania would not be susceptible to an avalanche however communities in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado would have increase vulnerability. Understanding the types of disaster for which the community is susceptible is essential for emergency preparedness (Nies & McEwen, 2011). All communities are susceptible to man-made disasters; terrorism, fires, and mass transit accidents and emergency preparedness are essential. The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) is responsible for disaster planning.
Emergency management has been described for the past three decades as a “four phase” process, involving:
Of the four phases of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, perhaps the place that individuals can make the biggest difference in their own state of resiliency and survival of a disaster is in the preparedness phase. Being prepared before a disaster strikes makes sense yet many people fail to take even simple, precautionary steps to reduce the consequences of destruction and mayhem produced by natural events such as earthquakes, volcanos and tornados (see Paton et al, 2001, Mileti and Peek, 2002; Tierney, 1993, Tierney et al, 2001).