Disaster Management Action Plan

Contents

Introduction3

Disaster Overview3

Evolving and Dynamic Attributes4

Cooperation, Collaboration, and Coordination5

Disaster Management Action Plan Overview6

Disaster Management Action Plan Purpose8

Resources9

Applicability9

Recovery as a Continuum9

Action Plan Core Principles10

Accomplishing Successful Disaster Recovery12

Success Factors13

Measuring Recovery Process13

References14

Disaster Management Action Plan

Introduction

Each disaster presents itself with a unique set of characteristics that are hard to determine a priori. Thus disaster management tasks are inherently uncertain, requiring knowledge sharing and quick decision making that involves coordination across different levels and collaborators. While there has been an increasing interest among both researchers and practitioners in utilizing knowledge management to improve disaster management, little research has been reported about how to assess the dynamic nature of disaster management tasks, and what kinds of knowledge sharing are appropriate for different dimensions of task uncertainty characteristics. Using combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods, this research study developed the dimensions and their corresponding measures of the uncertain dynamic characteristics of disaster management tasks and tested the relationships between the various dimensions of uncertain dynamic disaster management tasks and task performance through the moderating and mediating effects of knowledge sharing (Chen, et. al., 2012, pp. 1391-1403).

The following paper is based on developing a disaster management action plan as per the given scenario Patriot City is taken, which hit by Tornado. The Tornado hit the city severely causing a lot of damage to city, therefore, the main motive is to develop action plan to protect city from further disaster.

Disaster Overview

Because of recent natural disasters such as hurricanes (e.g., Katrina, Rita, and Wilma), wildfires (e.g., in Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas), and tornados (in the American Midwest like Patriot City), as well as the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant disasters in Japan, there is renewed interest in the field of disaster management (Bessis, et. al., 2011, pp. 76-85). In addition, it has become evident that public disaster management capabilities need to be enhanced and strengthened in terms of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. Each of these areas represents a different set of challenges based on the impacts of natural disasters and threats such as those mentioned above.

The Tornado at Patriot City brought huge disaster because it is a small town with low population, therefore, the resources required to overcome such disasters is limited. The only organization in the city, which deals with the emergency situations, is Emergency Management Organization (EMO) and it operates from the industrial park. As per the scenario, it is very much evident that EMO wasn't capable of dealing with disasters and the city council and EMO also need to reconsider their procedures. Therefore, as per the purpose of the paper Emergency Management plan need to be formulate for the city to deal with any future disasters that might hit the city.

Evolving and Dynamic Attributes

Once a disaster occurs, evolving and dynamic attributes related to time, geography, size, periodicity, circumstances, magnitude, information, knowledge, and people heavily influence decision-making processes and place additional demands on the teams involved in disaster response and recovery efforts. Furthermore, uncertain conditions, role ambiguity, and the need for ...