By Lucien G. Canton
This publication propounds an all-hazards, multidisciplinary method of emergency administration. It discusses the emergency manager’s function, information the way to identify a good, built-in software, and explores the elements, together with: assessing danger; constructing innovations; making plans options; making plans strategies and strategies; coordinating reaction; and dealing with obstacle. whole with case stories, this can be a great reference for execs concerned with emergency preparedness and reaction.
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He viewed the earthquake as a mere delay in achieving that goal and focused his efforts on restoring the city of Lisbon as quickly as possible. He used the opportunity presented by the earthquake to build a better, safer city. The relationship between disaster and attempts to prevent its reoccurrence or reduce its impact is one that repeats itself throughout history. The Great Fire of London in 1666 offers another example of this relationship. Started by a careless baker who had failed to douse his oven fire at night, the fire burned for five days and destroyed some 436 acres, most within the City of London.
These examples of historical disasters demonstrate a number of key points. First, they emphasize that while catastrophic events often seem sudden and unexpected; in many cases they are at least foreseeable. This unwillingness to see the possibility of catastrophe and to instead treat foreseeable disasters as “Acts of God” is a common theme throughout history. The refusal of the Lord Mayor to deal with London’s fire risk in 1666 is echoed again in the failure of San Francisco’s Mayor Schmitz to act on the warnings of his fire chief prior to the earthquake and fire in 1906.
A great deal of study is required to identify trends and draw conclusions that are useful in emergency planning. To meet this need, emergency managers must turn to the discipline of social science. Social science is the study of human society and of individual relationships in, and to, society. Where history tells what occurred, social scientists attempt to determine why something happened. From this, it is possible to predict what is likely to occur in the future and to base emergency planning on realistic possibilities rather than on the many myths and unchallenged assumptions that are common to emergency planning.
