Read an extract below and answer questions that follows: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. During the 1960s and 1970s a series of major natural disasters hit the United States thereby prompting the establishment of FEMA, whose mission was and remains, to support the citizens and first responders to promote national collaboration towards building, sustaining, and improving the capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards. The governor of the state in which the disaster occurs must declare a state of emergency and formally request from the President that FEMA and the federal government respond to the disaster.

Question 4

FEMA identified five successive steps to exercising a risk/disaster management strategy. Identify and discuss Five of these steps. (25 Marks)