Emergency Management Case Study

Introduction

Emergency management is a career about managing risk that are both technological and naturally occurring. Though these two terms are synonymous with each other in-terms of modern conceptualization of disasters; this has not always been the case. In the developmental history of emergency management these two sources of disaster; were often seen as two completely independent sources of danger, and as a result the emergency management community encountered steep and costly learning curve in managing the hazards associated with these sources risk.

All Hazard Risk Management In-order to plan for and manage the dangers associated with the various types of emergencies that occur. Managers must first identify the associated hazards that

Previous centuries did not have to contend with or plan for the failure of electronic components, or the threats poses to the modern age as a result of the introduction of the nuclear/chemical age. These technologies and the introduction of terrorism into the risk management equation results in a complicated management problem of identifying, assessing, and preparing for the effects of the failures of modern technology. Emerging technological advances continue to change the planning cause the emergency management community to adapt to and identify new tools to manage technological risk (Haddow, Bullock, Coppola,

However, they only briefly present issues that directly affect the populace in-terms of economic and social impact. The literature fails to take into account how underprepared many citizens are equipped to deal with a natural or technological hazard. In recent years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has continued to push the concept of being prepared for a 72 hour emergency. The question is the populous prepared to a catastrophic emergency? If not, is this being accounted for in the risk