Book description
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.
