Questions and Answers of Introduction to Emergency Management

What has been the most significant result of the 9/11 attacks for state and local emergency managers?
What did the two 9/11-related after-action reports say about the capabilities of first responders?
How much money did the federal government spend in the response to and recovery from the 9/11 attacks?
What is the purpose of the UNDP-led Global Partnership for Preparedness?
Why were the Hyogo Framework for Action and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction developed?
What is the National Disaster Recovery Framework?
What is Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning, and why is it so important?
Discuss the role of social media outlets before, during, and after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in the states of New Jersey and New York.
Discuss how emergency managers/homeland security officials can build an effective crisis communications strategy in a changing media world.
Discuss how emergency managers can “operationalize” data generated by social media users before, during, and after a disaster event.
Discuss how information posted on social media sites might be harvested by government officials in order to increase their situational awareness and make resource allocation decisions.
Discuss the emergence of social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as a preferred means of communications before, during, and after a disaster event.
Discuss how the role of the traditional media in crisis communications has changed.
Identify and discuss the four critical assumptions underlying the crisis communications efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) in the 1990s.
Describe the activities associated with the National Preparedness Goal.
Name the National Planning Frameworks and describe their purpose.
Name five functional needs populations, and describe what makes their disaster planning needs unique.
Why are structural controls a controversial mitigation tool? How can structural mitigations negatively affect the areas they are presumably protecting?
What are the most effective as well as the most expensive land-use planning tools? Why are they so effective?
What are the various ways that hurricanes cause damage to a community?
How relevant is social media in disaster response and recovery?
What is the significance of the Flood Control Act of 1936?
What impact has Hurricane Sandy had on FEMA’s responsibilities and changes to the DRF?
What is the purpose of the FSMAUGO methodology
What political arguments can be used to support taking mitigation actions?
How has the role of social media expanded in the coverage of disaster since 2004?
How have the changes in media coverage changed how emergency managers must deliver timely and accurate information to the public?
Name several types of social media and describe how they have been used in recent years in communicating disaster information.
What changes have been made since Hurricane Sandy for entities to be eligible for Public Assistance grant funding?
How does the terrorism hazard differ from its natural and technological counterparts?
How do states respond to the terrorist threat?
What are some of the first examples of emergency management?
According to the Constitution, does the federal government have a primary or secondary role in managing public risks?
What is the significance of the Flood Control Act of 1934?
How did the Cold War era contribute to the evolution of modern emergency management?
What disaster led to the creation of the National Flood Insurance Program?
Describe the events of the 1970s that led to the creation of, FEMA.
Why was, FEMA an agency in trouble at the close of the 1980s?
How did James Lee Witt improve, FEMA?
What changes did the creation of the Department of Homeland Security bring about for the federal emergency management capacity?
List the steps involved in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
Why was the response to Hurricane Katrina so ineffective?
How did the poor response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster change emergency management in the United States?
What area of emergency management did DHS/, FEMA seek to emphasize in 2009?
What changes to disaster recovery programs were being proposed in 2009?
How is a hazard different from a disaster?
What is the most frequent and widespread disaster-causing hazard?
What scale is commonly used to describe the effects of earthquakes?
How are earthquakes measured?
Describe the process by which hurricanes form.
What scale is used to describe the intensity of hurricanes?
What are the various ways that hurricanes cause damages to a community?
What is a SLOSH model used to measure?
Why was the Fujita-Pearson Tornado Scale updated in 2006, and what changes were made?
What are the three categories of wildland fires?
How are severe weather storms measured?
What single disaster type caused nine of the top ten natural disasters ranked by, FEMA relief costs?
What is the source of most hazardous materials incidents?
List and describe four categories of weapons of mass destruction.
What six steps are common to most risk assessment methodologies?
Name several of the social factors emergency managers must consider when assessing a community's risk.
What are some of the factors that make up a community's economic profile? How do these factors influence that community's disaster risk?
How does the function of mitigation differ from other emergency management disciplines?
Which other emergency management function offers the best opportunities for mitigation?
Why is it more difficult to analyze, and therefore mitigate, the effects of terrorism?
How have geographic information systems (GIS) aided the practice of mitigation?
Why have building codes that require rehabilitation of existing potentially hazardous structures rarely been implemented?
At what government level are mitigation programs most effective, and why?
What is the most effective as well as the most expensive land-use planning tool? Why is it so effective?
How has the Community Development Block Grant served to help communities perform local mitigation?
Why do some people consider insurance to not be a proper mitigation method?
Why are structural controls a controversial mitigation tool? How can structural mitigation negatively affect the areas they are presumably protecting?
What are some impediments faced by communities wishing to perform hazard mitigation?
Name the primary federal mitigation programs, and explain how they serve to reduce hazard risk.
Do nonfederal mitigation programs exist?
What kinds of organizations must consider disaster preparedness?
What is the difference between mitigation and preparedness?
What are the steps involved in the preparedness cycle?
According to Ready.Gov, what are the three basic steps people can take to prepare for any type of disaster?
What are the seven key elements that can be used to measure the comprehensive nature of an evacuation plan?
Name five special needs populations, and describe what makes their disaster planning needs unique.
Why is it important to involve representatives from all stakeholders in the disaster planning process?
What kinds of training opportunities are provided by the federal government? What agencies provide these courses, workshops, and other programs?
What are the four types of disaster exercises? What does each involve?
Name the ways that the National Preparedness Directorate guides national preparedness efforts.
Create an individual or family plan using the guidance provided in, FEMA's Are You Ready publication (http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/ ). Did you find any shortfalls in this program? What did you
Contact your local office of emergency management and find out if there is an evacuation plan for your local community. What must occur for an evacuation to be ordered? Who has the authority to issue
Determine what special needs populations exist in your community.Select one, and find out whether special preparedness and emergency planning considerations have been made to accommodate their unique
Assist a local small business or nonprofit organization in identifying their hazards and mitigating their risks (often called a Business Continuity Plan, or Continuity of Operations Plan). Several
What is the mission of an effective disaster communications strategy?
What are the five critical assumptions of an effective disaster communications strategy?
What are some of the ways, FEMA director James Lee Witt exhibited his commitment to effective communications?
What is the goal of a media partnership?
Name and describe six basic emergency management audiences.
What three factors do DHS and its state and local partners need to address to improve its communications with the American people?
What communications media have traditionally been used to communicate disaster information?
Name several types of new media, and describe how they have been used in recent years in communicating disaster information.
What role have “first informers” come to play in disaster communications?
List and summarize the seven elements of an effective disaster communications capability.
Using the Internet, the library, or another information source, print out three different articles that describe the same disaster event. Compare the three articles to determine which provides the

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