Discussion Question

Emergency Management is a profession that is continually evolving to meet the needs of the era in which it is exercised. Currently, emergency managers seek to promote resiliency to a wide variety of hazards, such as experienced during Hurricane Harvey. Explain how emergency management planning supports the concept of resiliency as described in Section 2.1 in the following article:

Penads, M. C., Nez, A. G., & Cans, J. H. (2017). From planning to resilience: The role (and value) of the emergency plan(Links to an external site.).Technological Forecasting & Social Change,121, 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.12.004