Enhancing Short-term Responses with Larger-scale Perspectives
- Topics:
- Contingency Planning
- Tags:
- Data Management,
- Disaster Recovery,
- Emergency Management,
- Paradox,
- Public Entity Risk Institute
- Source:
- Public Entity Risk Institute
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Overview: Our tools and techniques for hazard assessment and disaster management come into question when we consider the paradox of concurrent and prodigious increases in property losses as well as in research related to natural hazards. In view of this developing paradox, the call for an International System Model in Emergency Management (ISMEM) seems to be more than reasonable and promising.Efforts to develop an international cooperative framework must recognize how different ecological, socio-political, and economic processes operate within different scales or levels (local, regional, national, continental, global) within a global hierarchy, and that disasters often result when such processes breach their normal boundaries and cascade across scales to other levels. This requires better communication, education, research, and policy experimentation that provides on-going support for these long-term goals. In conclusion, the article critically comment on the feasibility and value of a common international framework in emergency management.
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Format: PDF | Size: 273KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 10
