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Showing posts with label emergency management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emergency management. Show all posts
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Untapped Potential? Emergency Management Websites?
A report, "Untapped Potential: Evaluating State Emergency Management Agency Web Sites 2008" is available from the University of Kansas Transporation Research Institute
http://people.ku.edu/~dguth/WebVersionEMA.pdf
While we might not agree with all of the information, there is some pretty good information and statistics.
http://people.ku.edu/~dguth/WebVersionEMA.pdf
While we might not agree with all of the information, there is some pretty good information and statistics.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Ever Wonder What Fortune 100 Companies Do To Help In A Disaster?
The next couple of articles will features companies such as Walmart, Home Depot and others.
The Suburban Emergency Management Project, provides some insight on Walmart activites.
“Big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart were extraordinarily successful in providing help to damaged communities in the days, weeks, and months after the storm,”
The complete article, Wal-Mart Way in Disaster Response, can be found at:
http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=569
The Suburban Emergency Management Project, provides some insight on Walmart activites.
“Big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart were extraordinarily successful in providing help to damaged communities in the days, weeks, and months after the storm,”
The complete article, Wal-Mart Way in Disaster Response, can be found at:
http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=569
Monday, November 10, 2008
Preparing for Disasters
The following article was distributed last week through fema@service.govdelivery.com
(6) IBM Center for The Business of Government Report – Preparing for Disasters:
IBM Center for The Business of Government. Preparing for Disasters. Washington DC: IBM, October 30, 2008, 62 pages. At: http://www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/OBrienReport.pdf
This new IBM document contains two essays. The first is on “Keys to Effectively Partner in Temporary Networks,” by William Ross O’Brien. The second is on “Emergency Management Networks in California,” by Richard Callahan, Dan M. Haverty, and Ross Clayton.
From the Introduction by Albert Morales and David Abel with IBM:
The first essay, “Keys to Effectively Partner in Temporary Networks,” by Ross O’Brien, examines the roles of nongovernmental organizations in large-scale emergencies. He interviewed aid workers who participated in the response to the Asian Tsunami in 2004 and leaders in nonprofit organizations involved in the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He observed a series of characteristics that helps explain why some aid organizations were more effective emergency responders. Organizations that display these characteristics are more capable of creating and using temporary networks to address a specific emergency event. He offers advice on what both nonprofit and public managers might do to prepare for such networks in advance.
Separately, but similarly, Dr. Richard Callahan and his colleagues Dr. Dan Haverty and Dr. Ross Clayton examine in the second essay, “Emergency Management Networks in California,” how the State of California has developed a series of emergency response networks and specific tools for preparing and responding to emergencies, whether the emergencies are forest fires, homeland security events, or public health episodes. California has one of the most developed set of emergency response networks in the country, in part from its history with disasters dating back to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. A number of innovations, such as the Incident Command System, were developed by California and are now used nationally.
Together, these two essays provide useful insights for both nonprofit and public managers in preparing for potential future disasters. We hope this report will help them be more prepared.
(6) IBM Center for The Business of Government Report – Preparing for Disasters:
IBM Center for The Business of Government. Preparing for Disasters. Washington DC: IBM, October 30, 2008, 62 pages. At: http://www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/OBrienReport.pdf
This new IBM document contains two essays. The first is on “Keys to Effectively Partner in Temporary Networks,” by William Ross O’Brien. The second is on “Emergency Management Networks in California,” by Richard Callahan, Dan M. Haverty, and Ross Clayton.
From the Introduction by Albert Morales and David Abel with IBM:
The first essay, “Keys to Effectively Partner in Temporary Networks,” by Ross O’Brien, examines the roles of nongovernmental organizations in large-scale emergencies. He interviewed aid workers who participated in the response to the Asian Tsunami in 2004 and leaders in nonprofit organizations involved in the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He observed a series of characteristics that helps explain why some aid organizations were more effective emergency responders. Organizations that display these characteristics are more capable of creating and using temporary networks to address a specific emergency event. He offers advice on what both nonprofit and public managers might do to prepare for such networks in advance.
Separately, but similarly, Dr. Richard Callahan and his colleagues Dr. Dan Haverty and Dr. Ross Clayton examine in the second essay, “Emergency Management Networks in California,” how the State of California has developed a series of emergency response networks and specific tools for preparing and responding to emergencies, whether the emergencies are forest fires, homeland security events, or public health episodes. California has one of the most developed set of emergency response networks in the country, in part from its history with disasters dating back to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. A number of innovations, such as the Incident Command System, were developed by California and are now used nationally.
Together, these two essays provide useful insights for both nonprofit and public managers in preparing for potential future disasters. We hope this report will help them be more prepared.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Emergency Management Strategy for Remote Indigenous Communities
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA
Emergency Management Australia (http://www.ema.gov.au/) provides an extensive resource for:
Keeping our mob safe: national emergency management strategy for remote Indigenous communities
In Australia, the term "mob" is used to describe a mass of common/similar people.
According to the website, "This strategy addresses the community emergency management priorities of remote Indigenous communities. It takes into account the broader community safety priorities and needs of remote Indigenous communities, as related to emergency management."
These recommendations can also be leveraged in less developed areas.
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