Emergency Management

Emergency Management

Introduction

Emergency management, as the name indicated, deals with the strategic organizational management processes, which are utilized doe the protection of critical assets belonging to an organization and from the hazard risks, caused by the events of disasters or catchpoles and to ensure the resiliency of the organization within the lifetime planned by them. Thus, emergence management deals with a number of natural disasters, emergencies and catastrophes, which are not gradients and are separate, thus require separate and distinct strategies for their response and have to be dealt with separately.

Emergency planning holds immense importance for all the areas, cities and districts, as it assists in making plans for managing the problems and issues that might arise naturally at any instant. As these natural disasters and emergencies cause destruction on mass scale and effect a large number of individuals, these have to be addresses properly and with proper attention so that the chances of destruction can be averted. The following paragraphs would provide explanation of the essential terms used to explain and highlight the concept of emergency management:

Discussion

Terrorism

The first term essential in understanding the concept of emergency management is terrorism, which might affect a large number of individuals and call for emergency management. Although there is no specific and particular definition of terrorism, it is defined as the combination of violent acts that intend to create fear, and involve the deliberate targeting or disregard of some safety non combats. There are various forms of terrorism, which includes religious, political and ideological goals and aims, intended to create fear and harassment to achieve the desired goals.

Homeland Security

Homeland security is basically an umbrella term used to describe the security efforts and provide protection to the states against any form of terrorist activity. It can specifically be defined as a ...