Download or read book Emergency Management Decision Making During Severe Weather written by Leigh A. Baumgart and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geographic Differences in Emergency Management Decision making written by Holly Beth Lussenden and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tornadoes are one of the most dangerous meteorological hazards on a local scale. While tornadoes can occur virtually anywhere, response--and the processes that lead to it--can vary based on location. It is the task of an emergency manager (EM) to inform the public about the threat of impending weather. However, the completion of that task differs with each EM as various situational and cognitive factors are geographically dependent, such as tornado experience and training. A survey taken by emergency support function personnel within five National Weather Service weather forecast office locations is analyzed in conjunction with historical county tornado data to investigate the influences of various factors present while EMs make decisions. Perceptions of warning effectiveness, warning message priorities, and past tornadic activity are specifically evaluated for the purpose of discovering the communication needs EMs have in various locations. Results show that very few significant differences in response are geographically dependent and that false alarms have little effect on how EMs make subsequent severe weather decisions. The results from this research can provide meteorologists with the knowledge of specific EM decision-making needs, which will enable the EMs' tasks to be more effective and, in turn, they will be able to better protect the public during severe weather.

Download or read book Severe Weather Warnings An Interdisciplinary Approach written by William Donner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings. Traditional warnings approach warning technology, design, and application from a principally scientific and technical perspective. Human factors, while considered, often are of secondary concern. Interdisciplinary warnings, on the other hand, maintain a critical emphasis on the technical merits of warning systems, but also ask, “Will psychological and community factors such as culture and structure shape how the system is used, and, if so, can this information be incorporated into system design preemptively to make it more effective?” Given the absence of systematic work on interdisciplinary warnings, a book-length monograph discussing and synthesizing knowledge from the various fields focused on warnings and warning response is of critical importance to both academics and practitioners. Broadly conceived, the book presents readers with an in-depth overview of warnings, interdisciplinary research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The book holds appeal for a very broad audience: scholars; practitioners; and academic, vocational, and technical instructors both in University and non-University settings. It is of interest to academic scholars due to the interdisciplinary treatment of warnings as well as the general presentation of up-to-date scholarship on warning theory. Additionally, scholars interested in interdisciplinary work in general and those focusing on disaster warnings find within the volume a framework for developing collaborative research partnerships with those from other disciplines. As well, the book offers practitioners --emergency managers, mitigation specialists, planners, etc. --a more comprehensive perspective on emergency response in practice, allowing for better development and application of warning policy. Finally, the book appeals to instructors both inside and outside the academy. The authors envision the book useful to professors teaching both graduate and undergraduate-level courses in Sociology of Disaster, Emergency Management Planning, Homeland Security, Disaster Response, Disaster Mitigation, and Business Continuity and Crisis Management. A robust market also exists among professional organizations, perhaps most notably FEMA, which offers countless online and in-person training courses via the National Training Program, Emergency Management Institute (EMI), and other venues.

Download or read book Decision Making in Emergency Management written by Jan Glarum and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision-Making in Emergency Management examines decisions the authors have made over their careers based on their combined training, experience and instinct. Through a broad range of case studies, readers discover how experience impacts decision-making in conjunction with research and tools available. While the use of science, data and industry standards are always the best option when it comes to handling emergency situations, not all emergency situations fit one known solution. This book comprehensively explores the question "Is ‘instinct’ a viable factor when faced with a challenging situation and how close does it match up with the best science available?" Includes case studies from natural and manmade disasters, providing readers with decision-making skills in various global settings Provides readers the opportunity to learn from someone else’s decisions Inspires emergency response personnel to continuously pursue learning, question their strategies and apply changes as appropriate

Download or read book Building Better Warning Partnerships written by Christopher R. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of the Forum was on discussion groups working in four areas: (1) warning coordination and decision making, (2) communications technologies and formats, (3) critical information needs, and (4) warning dissemination to the public warning.

Download or read book Guide for All Hazard Emergency Operations Planning written by Kay C. Goss and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meant to aid State & local emergency managers in their efforts to develop & maintain a viable all-hazard emergency operations plan. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. It offers the best judgment & recommendations on how to deal with the entire planning process -- from forming a planning team to writing the plan. Specific topics of discussion include: preliminary considerations, the planning process, emergency operations plan format, basic plan content, functional annex content, hazard-unique planning, & linking Federal & State operations.

Download or read book Disaster Operations and Decision Making written by Roger C. Huder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book to combine emergency management principLEs with proven military concepts Good disaster plans do not guarantee a good response. Any disaster plan rarely survives the first rain bands of a hurricane or the first tremors of an earthquake. While developing plans is essential, there must be systems in place to adapt these plans to the ever-changing operational environment of a disaster. Currently there is no set of standard disaster response principles to guide a community. The National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) provide the framework to implement operational decisions, but they were never designed as operational concepts. The military has developed just such concepts and many of them can be adapted for civilian use. Disaster Operations and Decision Making adapts those military concepts and combines them with disaster lessons learned to create a new opera-tional paradigm. Emphasizing team building, Emergency Operations Center operational systems, and situational awareness, the book details easily adopted methods. All of these methods are designed to be incorporated into the NIMS and ICS framework to enhance a community's response to any type of disaster. Disaster Operations and Decision Making is an essential resource for emergency managers, fire chiefs, law enforcement officers, homeland security professionals, public health officials, and anyone else involved or interested in crisis management.

Download or read book Saving Lives with an All hazard Warning Network written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decisions Under Duress Influences on Official Decision Making During Superstorm Sandy written by Stephanie M Hoekstra and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During impending storms, emergency managers and politicians are tasked with the difficult decision of whether or not to issue evacuation orders for their area. This study uses Superstorm Sandy as a case study and investigates how emergency managers (EMs) and politicians made these critical evacuation decisions. Within this larger research question, this study aimed to accomplish five objectives: determining 1) the weather information sources used; 2) the chain of communication among emergency managers and politicians; 3) the situational and cognitive factors that influenced decisions made; 4) how the uncertainty and changing weather information influenced EM perceptions of risk and decision making; and 5) the relationship between and roles of EMs and politicians. Literature on decision making has focused almost exclusively on the publics, yet it is vital to understand how these officials make decisions in order to achieve a more cohesive and interconnected network of hazardous weather preparation and response among all involved parties. A total of twenty five in-depth interviews, a focus group, and a newspaper analysis were conducted in New Jersey and New York to help answer the question of how emergency managers and politicians made decisions during Superstorm Sandy. Including different locations added a geographical and socio-economic context, which enhanced the overall understanding of the decision making process both temporally and spatially. Grounded theory, a qualitative data analysis method, was used to determine the various factors influencing decisions. A major contribution of this research to the hazards field is the creation of a decision making model fitted specifically to the role of emergency managers. This model highlights the complexity and individuality of decision making by illustrating the wide variety of factors, including those of the municipality itself, individual EM, and Sandy's uncertainty, that influenced evacuations decisions. How decisions were influenced by these factors was not uniform across geographic regions. Many factors, such as prior storm experience and knowledge of the town, proved to be more influential in the decision making process than was weather information, such as forecasts. This model further distinguished between making a decision and actually taking action, exploring the different triggers associated with turning a decision into action. The decision to evacuate is far more complex than simply providing available weather information. In a similar vein to studies that examine public response to hazards, this study considers emergency managers as individuals who often rely on a variety of non-weather sources; this recognition is key to identifying opportunities for improved response. It is vital that forecasters and other tool developers understand that the weather information they provide plays only a small part in how EMs make critical evacuation decisions. Placing emergency managers within the context of the complex, geographically-based networks in which they reside and recognizing that one size does not fit all are significant contributions that this research brings to the hazards field and to future studies on this under researched group of officials.

Download or read book Emergency Planning and Management written by William H. Stringfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics covered include federal requirements for development of emergency action plans, hazard and risk management assessment, generic emergency action plan, preservation of records, Internet resources for disaster planning.

Download or read book Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans written by United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 provides guidelines on developing emergency operations plans (EOP). It promotes a common understanding of the fundamentals of risk-informed planning and decision making to help planners examine a hazard or threat and produce integrated, coordinated, and synchronized plans. The goal of CPG 101 is to make the planning process routine across all phases of emergency management and for all homeland security mission areas. This Guide helps planners at all levels of government in their efforts to develop and maintain viable all-hazards, all-threats EOPs. Accomplished properly, planning provides a methodical way to engage the whole community in thinking through the life cycle of a potential crisis, determining required capabilities, and establishing a framework for roles and responsibilities. It shapes how a community envisions and shares a desired outcome, selects effective ways to achieve it, and communicates expected results. Each jurisdiction's plans must reflect what that community will do to address its specific risks with the unique resources it has or can obtain.

Download or read book Responding to Extreme Weather Events written by Daniel Sempere-Torres and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date discussion of the latest in weather-related event forecasting and management In Responding to Extreme Weather Events, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a timely and authoritative exploration of three international extreme weather projects: ANYWHERE, I-REACT, and BeAWARE. The key contributions from policymaking, science, and industry in each project are discussed, as are the resulting improved measures and technologies for forecasting and managing weather-related extreme events. The authors cover the entire crisis management cycle, from awareness and early warning to effective responses to extreme weather events. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to the science and policy background of managing extreme weather events Comprehensive explorations of impact forecasting for extreme weather events, including discussions of the ANYWHERE project Practical discussions of how to improve resilience to weather-related emergencies with advanced cyber technologies A novel framework for crisis management during extreme weather events, including discussions of the BeAWARE project Essential for disaster management professionals, Responding to Extreme Weather Events will also benefit academic staff and researchers with an interest in extreme weather events and their consequences.

Download or read book Severe Weather Preparedness written by Illinois. Emergency Management Agency and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Case Based Decision Support for Disaster Management written by Möhrle, Stella and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters are characterized by severe disruptions of the society’s functionality and adverse impacts on humans, the environment, and economy that cannot be coped with by society using its own resources. This work presents a decision support method that identifies appropriate measures for protecting the public in the course of a nuclear accident. The method particularly considers the issue of uncertainty in decision-making as well as the structured integration of experience and expert knowledge.

Download or read book Comprehensive Emergency Management written by National Governors' Association. Center for Policy Research and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide highlights the findings of the National Governors' Association (NGA) Emergency Preparedness Project study, recommends an approach to comprehensive state emergency management, and offers pertinent management advice and tools based on hard-won experience in a variety of states. Case histories based on actual experience, as told by governors, their aides, and state emergency office directors, appear as insets throughout the text. These case histories both illustrate and augment the surrounding text. The outcomes of cases describing comprehensive emergency management are hypothetical, as this practice is not yet implemented in most states. Intended for governors and their staff aides, this guide is concerned with emergency management. It is one of a series of five companion publications of the NGA Center for Policy Research.

Download or read book Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning written by Alexander Quoc Huy Chung and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme weather events have become a common occurrence and coastal communities are adversely affected by it. Studies have shown that the changing climate has increased the frequency and severity of storms, surging sea levels, and floods, as was seen with Hurricane Sandy (2012) and Typhoon Haiyan (2013). The need to be proactive in preparing for these events, as a means of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, is evident. This study focuses on the formal definition, measurement and simulation of coastal community preparedness and response to severe storm events. Preparedness and response requires resources, emergency plans, informed decision making and the ability to cope with unexpected events. A suite of preparedness indicators is developed using a three level hierarchical framework in the construction of a coastal community preparedness index to evaluate resources and plans. Informed decision making for emergency management personnel in the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is evaluated through a table-top exercise using a five-phase approach. Lastly, decision making with risk is introduced with a storm decision making simulation model. This study is applied to the case of the breakwater failure in the coastal community of Little Anse, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Download or read book Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions written by John W. Handmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prevention or to manage disasters. This book seeks to overcome this mismatch and to guide development of a more strategic policy and institutional framework. This updated and revised second edition includes new coverage of climate change adaptation, which has rapidly become central to disaster and emergency planning and management. This is an essential handbook for practitioners across the world seeking to improve the quality, robustness and capacity of their disaster management mechanisms.