Unit II Journal
Describe a human caused disaster in your community or a community near you. Do you believe that this disaster was a result of failure of complex systems? Why, or why not? What could have been done to prevent such a disaster in the community? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.Unit II Essay
Instructions
Write an essay including four pictures with clear captions and citations describing how emergency management has changed over the last 50 years in your community. Compare those years to that of the Post-Katrina era. Be sure to identify your community. Interview those in your community to determine lessons learned and improvements that have come from major disasters that have occurred specifically since Hurricane Katrina. Has emergency management been affected based on any events? How? What changes have there been in mitigation? Preparedness? Has your community been involved in any major disasters? Describe the progression towards federal government involvement in disaster response and recovery during this period. Describe the stakeholders, emergency services participants, and how disasters were managed over the last 50 years. Be sure to cite your sources. Be sure to include pictures that would be useful to your discussion. Some suggestions would be to include pictures of events during the disaster and during the recovery period after the disaster. Some examples of disaster mitigation actions are building codes, warning sirens, and fire codes. Your essay should be four pages in length, not counting the pictures that you will insert in the Word document, your title or reference page. Your paper should be in A&P format with at least two academic sources, one of which must come from the CSU Online Library. Please be sure to include at least four pictures with clear captions and citation.Unit III Journal
Instructions
According to the textbook, the Federal Disaster Assistance Act of 1950 (P.L. 81-875) defined the roles and responsibilities during natural disasters. Once the President issued a disaster declaration, federal relief resources could flow to the affected areas for response and recovery. The president would then delegate administrative control of relief efforts to the Housing and Home Finance Administration. This law also instituted the federal role in natural disasters as a supportive role, while instituting primary responsibility for disaster response and recovery with local and state governments. How had this changed by 1978? Why did it change? Do you agree with the change? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.Unit III PowerPoint Presentation
Instructions
Pick one of the following types of disasters in the United States, and present how disaster response and emergency management have changed (or not changed) over the last 100 years for that type of disaster:- hurricanes,
- earthquakes,
- tornadoes,
- flooding,
- fires, or
- man-made accident disasters (not terrorism).