Disaster Operations and Decision Making (ePub)

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.