This paper explores disaster management in response to varied homeland emergencies such as: chemical and biological scenarios, first responders, homeland security strategy, weapon delivery, and the national response plan. We have learned over time by way of trial and error that it is highly irrational to expect everything to be perfect and appropriate during disaster management. At best, we can simply hope for controlled chaos during the various phases of disaster. Today, there are significantly improved plans, the plan is well communicated, and it is being revised continuously to meet the changing needs of people and the environment. Advancements in disaster management no longer rely on the concert of haphazardly executed activities that result in poor use of resources, time, and casualties. However, the today's disaster management plans and strategies attempt to be holistic in all phases of preparedness, response, and recovery. .
Chemical Scenarios.
The fast growth of the industrial economy, technology, and the resounding threat of terrorist attacks have caused chemical and biological disaster management to be an emerging public health concern. Chemical-related injuries and deaths occurrences have led to the demand from the public towards governing authorities to strengthen controls at the national and international levels. The demand to strengthen controls for chemical and biological disasters is largely achieved through the development of laws and regulations that shape how to firmly control major hazards and manage business practices. The public health infrastructures must be prepared to prevent illness and injury that may result from chemical and biological accidents or terrorism, especially an unanticipated terrorist attacks. As with epidemic diseases, early detection and control of chemical and biological attacks depends on a strong and flexible public health system and governing controls at the local, state, and federal levels that are in coordination.
Further management commitments are obtained. ... Decide on a long-term strategy or short-term, high-impact plan. ... Evaluate alternative recovery strategies. Select on or more specific recovery strategies. ... Plan the management of resources during a disaster event. ...
(Project Management Institute, 2009). ... Every risk management system requires risk response planning. Risk response planning is concerned with the designing of different kind of strategies to fight against future risks. ... Under the active acceptance strategy, contingency plan is created, whereas, when there is presence of risk with low impact, the passive acceptance strategy is followed. ... Inclement weather, other fair and exhibitions in the city, live games on TV, festivals, and natural disasters will be avoided, since the club does not have the control over them. ...
In the occasion of a disaster touching any of the useful areas, the Business Continuity Management Team serves as a connection between the areas. ... Disaster Recovery Strategy This pertains specifically to a disaster disabling the data center it provides mainframe computer and server support to American Carpet Company; it addresses three phrases of disaster recovery: - Emergency • Backup • Recovery Emergency Phase The emergency phase begins with a reply to a disaster, during the emergency phase the existing emergency plans and procedure of the security and physic...
The practice of mitigation provides long-term, pre-disaster planning that involves the expenditure on structural and non-structural ideas for reducing the impacts of disaster occurrences. ... If properly planned, insurance can offer an alternative to funding of disaster management apart from the government. ... Many leaders lack Political will to implementation of mitigation strategies. ... For example, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) decided to focus on mitigation processes. ... Awareness should be the priority of leaders, and performing emergency response drill and simulations...
A common disaster dealt with by the Federal Emergency Management Agency could be prevented if they were to update their maps, and that is flooding. ... FEMA deals with all kinds of disasters, all of the time and the insurance that goes along with those. ... Many of these structures are not even insured for flooding disasters. ... James Lee Witt, director of FEMA, said he has a strategy to address repetitive flood loss, which is experienced by 35,000 high-risk properties. ... The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun to strive for the safety and well being of landowners in flood prone a...
"Unlike other natural disasters drought tends to drive people apart rather then bring them together."" ... (Bouma, et al. 1997) Management strategies for all natural hazards have some similarities, the need for more information on when and where hazards will take place. ... However political implications often interfere with management strategies. In the 1984 famine in Africa management strategies were highly successful in peaceful countries, but countries at war faced famine, as aid was unable to get there. ... Management strategies are now making an impact in developing countries with the d...
Understand the 93 flooding of the Mississippi (Description, cause, damage, recovery of this disaster). ... Again in late in 1993, representatives for the Office of Science and Technology, the Office of Management and Budget and the White House of environmental policy issued a White House Directive establishing an Interagency Scientific Assessment and Strategy team to provide scientific advice and assistance to officials responsible for making decisions about flood recovery in the upper Mississippi in river basin. ...
Additionally, besides storage consolidation, some other direct benefits derived from this architecture are better backup and recovery, higher availability, faster scalability, propriety data sharing, low management costs, and cross platform storage management. ... • More efficient management of storage. SANs provide a platform for storage management software that assists technicians in maintaining the system. ... Zoning techniques allow the SAN to be partitioned for management or security purposes. ... Alongside efforts to build the Storage System must come a parallel strate...
The government of PNG's Medium Term Development Strategy identifies, as a priority, the maintenance of current infrastructure, particularly the transport network. ... Australia is supporting projects that aim to strengthen public administration and economic management. ... This reduces the impact that a disaster can have on communities. For example, Australia currently supports the Disaster Management Unit in the South Pacific, which helps governments improve their preparedness for natural disasters precipitated by the El Niño effect. The Disaster Management Project in PNG will pr...
