Abstract: Despite the best-laid emergency plans, the most comprehensive preparedness programs, and the most effective mitigation programs, disasters strikes every day of every year. When these hazards strike, individuals, communities, and countries must initiate disaster response, working within the confines of their limited funding, resources, ability, and time to prevent the onset of a catastrophe. This chapter focuses on response as a disaster management function. The response function of emergency management includes actions aimed at limiting injuries, loss of life, and damage to property and the environment that are taken before, during, and immediately after a hazard event. Response is the most visible disaster management function at the international level. Media images and video footage depicting disaster victims rescued by the international disaster response community are never in short supply. The process by which international disasters are recognized, announced, and managed is also addressed. Even though there are disaster management functions common to many disasters, each is unique, drawing upon several of the tasks, processes, and systems described in this chapter.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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