Local and Federal Disaster Resources

Local and Federal Disaster Resources

Introduction

Largest and most populous city in the United States, New York has one of the largest and most complex prefectures of the country. More than 350,000 employees and more than 120 municipal departments, offices and organizations offer nearly 4,000 different services to 8 million residents. Drive that from time immemorial mankind has received products from natural disasters such as floods, plagues, earthquakes, severe droughts and major epidemics that have accompanied man in the course of their history, are natural phenomena but are inevitable, at least can be prevented and people prepared to suffer the consequences of these disasters have so that the damage to man and the environment will affect as little as possible.

We cannot forget the disasters of war, technology, toxic effects mainly affecting health and the environment (Schultz et.al, 2013 pp. 293). The disasters are generators of damage. In some cases, forecasts have been limited to the probability of occurrence of potentially destructive phenomena in others the likely magnitude of a phenomenon and the damage it could cause in terms of physical vulnerability.

Literature Review

From the sixties began a study of disasters and of these facts, in greater depth, and in the nineties the subject takes a global boom, so much so that the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the period the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) in order to avoid the loss of lives and between goals are meet to enhance the ability to mitigate the effects of disasters, promote efforts to generate new scientific knowledge and engineering, disseminate existing information on evaluation, prognosis, prevention and mitigation, providing technical assistance and technology transfer and personnel training. The decade (IDNDR) ended in December / 99. The UN created a successor to continue this work. This new institutional arrangement is included in the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).

The natural disaster declarations issued to states and municipalities covering, and Damage Assessment Committees and installed. In addition, emergency support granted for the protection of life and health of the population, (water supply, groceries, medicines, blankets, mats, raincoats, tools) identifying the destination of resources and the beneficiary population, and supports immediate partial authorized by sector and by state (Schultz et.al, 2013 pp. 293). In a statement, the Ministry of Finance reports that in the portal will follow up on the execution of the works and actions of rebuilding public infrastructure authorized reporting the physical and financial progress of each.

In order to achieve this mission and vision, the center has raised three objectives: strengthening the capacity of data collection, processing, storage, retrieval and dissemination of disaster information, forming the virtual library; cooperate with leading provider organizations and information centers existing documentation and dissemination in the Caribbean and Central America on the subject; expand services aggregates and effectively disseminate information as quickly and as close as possible to the user, using pathways that allow new technologies, services telemetric and Internet, enhancing the exchange through email communication and exchange of information, documentation and ...