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Global Cases In Best And Worst Practice In Crisis And Emergency Management 1st Edition Farazmand, Ali - Solutions
What are the WMD or CBRNE event risks in your community? What groups or organizations would be likely to use them?
What are some of the challenges inherent in managing such catastrophic disasters in low-income countries?
Are there findings from the research on the role of the Haitian diaspora in the United States that can be generalized to other diaspora groups? Why? Why not?
What can local, national, and international institutions do to leverage the power of formal and informal diaspora networks and organizations?
What are some examples of macro, meso, and micro changes in institutions and policy after the 2010 earthquake?
When did the Haiti earthquake take place and what effect did it have on groups within the United States?
What role can diaspora organizations and networks play in disasters?
Why are some of the transboundary effects of crises and disasters?
What is a transboundary crisis and why is the Haiti earthquake a good example?
Describe formal and informal transnational networks and the ways in which these networks play a role in transboundary events.
Explain what is meant by a diaspora organization and describe activities undertaken by some diaspora organizations.
The CART assessment survey can be administered by interview (over the telephone or in person), online, or in written formant (delivered in person or via postal or electronic mail). What are the pros and cons of each of these approaches to administering the survey? What issues should be considered
Note that communication is an attribute associated with each of the four CART domains. Discuss its role in each of the domains. Why is communication important in community resilience and disaster management?
Discuss how implementing the CART process can contribute to the four CART domains: connection and caring, resources, transformative potential, and disaster management.
The CART process involves community users in assessment, feedback, planning, and action, which typically are time and labor intensive. What are the advantages for community resilience? Could these advantages accrue through other processes? Explain.
Because of your educational qualifications (bachelor’s and master’s degrees in information technology and automotive engineering), along with 10 years of working at General Motors (applied research and reverse engineering), GM’s new CEO has asked you to prepare a strategic plan addressing
You won the presidential election, and on January 20, after taking the oath of office, you will address Congress and the citizens of the United States. Outline why we need a new approach to resiliency to protect our population, and outline measures you are going to recommend to Congress that need
What are some examples of potential threats to the U.S. infrastructure, and what measures could be employed to address the problem?
The United Kingdom has been identified as the country with the most comprehensive resilient approach. From an administrative and program management standpoint, how could the United States learn from their experience to improve its current approach?
What are the most serious global trends that may have an adverse impact on our planet’s resiliency before the next century arrives? What control strategies based on the four resilient attributes could be used to avoid future crises?
With regard to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, what resilient attributes were improperly addressed, thereby exacerbating the situation? Has that situation been rectified today? In retrospect, how could the attributes have been addressed in a more proactive way, in advance of
Delineate the neoteric planning principles that will enhance resiliency capacity building.a. Three-dimensional (3D) planning allows the earthscape to be observed and utilized in three planes—aerial, surface, and subsurface—so as to optimize their potential and effectively apply these spatial
Define and describe the global trends that are a challenge to the survival of our planet and its resiliency for protecting its 7 billion inhabitants.a. Population growth if uncontrolled and unplanned could reach over 11 billion population by the end of this century.b. Further encroachment of the
What is the most important lesson in governance learned from the public uprisings in these states?
Selecting a governance system that represents reform, what method has been dominant in terms of collaborative, participatory, hierarchical, centrally dictated, or other?
What are the catalysts of the social movements in the Arab States that stimulated the uprisings referred to as the Arab Spring?
What common attributes of governance contributed to public dissatisfaction and distrust of governance in the Arab States that experienced revolutionary uprisings since 2010?
Discuss the changes in demography, technology, and popular attitudes among the Arab people that generated forceful new demands for reform of governance, which escalated to popular revolutions in certain countries, referred to as the Arab Spring, that did not achieve all their demands; in some
When the author argues that, in an emergency or disaster event, to the victim it is always a disaster, what does this mean?
Public safety tends to attract a much larger portion of attention and responsibility in the response to an event; how do we avoid overlooking the other services that must be provided?
If you were tasked to present a new or revised hurricane plan to your community leaders, what would be your priorities (and why)?
What is collaborative emergency management and why does it matter?
Discuss the implications of Wilma and Sandy for crisis/emergency management and public administration.
What can be done to give the Department of Homeland Security less of a “top-down” approach and more of an emphasis on its relationships with local and regional governments and with nongovernmental organizations?
Briefly describe the formation of the Department of Homeland Security.
What changes in emergency management after September 11 do you believe caused the greatest impact to the United States? Consider political, economic, and social implications.
Are there any additional changes that should have been made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the role of emergency management in the United States after September 11, 2001?
Describe the changes to American emergency management following the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Describe the role of emergency management agencies on September 11, 2001.
What mistakes were made that should be avoided in future crisis and emergency management?
What lessons can be learned from the Iranian earthquake and Bam crisis and emergency management?
What were the key leadership features of the Bam earthquake crisis management?
What were the organizational features of crisis and emergency management in the Bam earthquake?
Why was the Iranian earthquake in Bam so important and considered a global case of best practice in crisis and emergency management?
What is meant by the “surprise management theory,” and what are its key characteristics?
What are some other countries prone to constant earthquakes?
Where in Iran is Bam located, and why is this ancient city so important in history?
What is the difference between chaos-driven crises and non-chaos-driven crises and emergencies?
What is meant by “managing at the edge of chaos”?
Highlight the lessons learned from the Bam earthquake as a global case in crisis and emergency management.
Discuss Iran’s Bam earthquake and its implications.
Describe linear and nonlinear models for chaos and crisis management.
Explain the differences between emergency governance and crisis management.
Identify crisis and emergency management situations.
Do you think disaster response has improved since Katrina? How so?
What would it take to restore faith in government organizations?
Would the public be better served by limiting the number of patronage appointments?
What differences may have occurred in the Katrina response if a merit employee headed FEMA rather than Michael Brown?
What role should political appointees play in running organizations? Should they be largely ceremonial or should they have real responsibility? How can the potential damage from political appointees be mitigated?
Describe the need for coordination in emergency management.
Discuss the highly visible role played by emergency managers during crises.
In a crisis situation, when it is clear that the ethical leadership and ethical culture are exacerbating the problem rather than facilitating a solution, whose responsibility is it to step in and correct the problem? When is the right time for this to happen?
How can a community’s ethical culture be changed? Whose role is it to undertake such changes? How can you assess when such a change process has been successful? What does a positive ethical culture look like in a community?
How can an electorate assess the ethical character of a leader prior to election? How reasonable is it to expect citizens to undertake this process? If they do not, is there a basis upon which they can rightfully complain or litigate when faced with ethical transgressions of the individual whom
What are some clues to a community’s ethical culture that we can use in advance of a crisis to anticipate response in an emergency situation?
What role does culture play in shaping a community’s ethical response to crisis situations?
How can character mapping be utilized to assess a leader’s ethical ability to manage crises?
What is the role of the community leader in establishing the ethical standards that guide behavior during a crisis?
How do existing ethical standards affect community response to crisis situations?
What are the common lessons from these three accidents and how would you incorporate them into a community emergency management plan?
Who would be the best media briefers if there were a release or theft at one of these facilities?
What are the radiological risks in your community? What sources could you use to find them? Where are they located and who provides for their security?
Review and report on the disaster plan of a local government in your area (check for personnel, finances, transportation, shelter-in-place, facilities, communications, relief supplies, mitigation strategies) or compare plans of various local governments.
Co-create a sample disaster plan with an organization in your community (student–community activity).
Draft a sample emergency alert that is appropriate in scope and duration.
Map a local community’s vulnerabilities and risks from natural disasters and other hazards.
Referring to Appendix 4A, identify five critical incidents that could have gone either way—success or failure—and analyze how the Qinglong County officials and citizens managed to avert disaster.
How do communities build institutions and procedures to mitigate risk and prepare for disaster events?
How can society integrate science, policy, and actions?
How can citizens know about shared risks?
What is the role of local government in disaster preparedness and management?
Informed, effective self-help and help provided by others are important elements in disaster mitigation. What should a government do to better prepare its citizens to survive a nuclear disaster emergency?
How can a government improve its records management in order to better assist both emergency managers and citizens and to enhance risk and crisis mitigation planning?
How can a government ensure greater disclosure of accountable and transparent crisis and risk information to its citizens in this global communication era?
Have you witnessed any type of government applying lessons learned from a crisis to improving their emergency and crisis management? If not, why do you think that hasn’t happened?
What have you learned from the Hurricane Katrina crisis that can be applied to future crisis and emergency management?
What are the key properties of surprise management theory in practice?
What is meant by surprise management theory?
What lessons can be learned from Hurricane Katrina crisis management or mismanagement?
What can crisis management learn from chaos theory?
What factors contributed to Hurricane Katrina crisis mismanagement?
Who were the key players or actors in the Hurricane Katrina crisis?
Why did the Hurricane Katrina emergency situation turn into a high-level crisis situation?
What is the difference between crisis and emergency management, crises, and emergencies?
What are the central components of grand failure in the Hurricane Katrina crisis?
What is meant by “global case of grand failure”?
What are the benefits of a case study text approach?
What is the difference between mitigation and a response system in crisis and emergency management?
Why is emergency governance dangerous and undesirable? Why is it sometimes necessary?
What is meant by creative breakdown?
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