...There is a significant difference between resilience and resistance. Resilience can be defined as a community’s ability to return to its former state after a disturbance. Resilience based approach to community development is founded on the belief that all citizens have the capability to rise above adversity and to thrive in spite of the adversity. Resilience theory is a strengths based model, which means attention is on giving the opportunities and supports that encourage life success, instead of attempting to get rid of the issues that promote failure. Sometimes resilience is confused with the idea of resistance. Resistance is an effort to stop or prevent disruptive events from occurring. Some strategies applied in resistance include physical countermeasures like creating firewalls to shield computer systems from attack. On the other hand, resilience presupposes that resistance might not always be an option and therefore incorporate the provision of or access to optional services and resources if the resistance approach fails. Resilience is not antithetical to resistance. Resilience encompasses resistance because if a society can resist an interruption, its resources are sufficient to prevent the interruption from reducing society functioning with no need for adaption. However, an approach that just directs resources towards resisting threats will almost surely be expensive, and maybe conflict with individual and societal liberties. Resilience is also much better...
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...According to reports from the Department of Homeland Security, Al Qaeda leaders have issued orders to their members and radical associates to bring the war to the West by infiltrating cities and communities. Their goal is to blend in with regular society and when the time is right strike with severe blows killing as many people as possible, with the stress of seasonal threats attacks such as this could cripple the most functional cities . Local leaders have been directed to revisit there National Preparedness System plans and complete a Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA). According to the DHS National Protection Framework Guide "it is the local governments that are responsible for the public safety, security,...
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...is also a lack of resources and opportunities that help in the enforcement of environmental protection laws. In this paper, therefore, I have created analyzed the disaster preparedness of Nepal with an aim of creating Nepal’s disaster relief plan (Davis, 2007). Maintenance and Training Required for the DRP A closer look at the Nepal strategy for risk management has made me identify gaps and issues that exist in the training plans that Nepal has employed. First, disaster risk management or risk reduction is not included in the school curricula, all the way from lower classes to the university level. Nepal education authorities should incorporate risk reduction and risk management as core courses in the Nepal’s education systems. Risk management training will equip students and teachers with skills necessary for disaster preparedness. Nepal authorities must also train professionals who only specialize in disaster planning. This plan, therefore, will give insights on how to successfully implement a comprehensive national disaster and risk management strategy at Nepal. It will recommend what the government of Nepal must do to involve all stakeholders in the formulation of a national risk management policy. The trained risk managers again can actively educate the community on how to plan and manage disasters. This...
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...Community Preparedness and Response NUR/408 Community Preparedness and Response This paper discusses The Neighborhood - Pearson Health Science season two, episode five at the University of Phoenix student website. The examination of the actions of health care workers in response to the health concerns of key characters will be highlighted including the community hospital, senior center, school, and the Bley household. The role of the preparedness of the public health agencies, who initially responded to the community emergency, and who should monitor the effects on the community health will be assessed. Identification of how public health care teams can enhance the citizens’ preparedness for emergencies will be explored as well as suggestions to improve personal preparedness in a similar community emergent event. The Neighborhood The Neighborhood has a population of 64,200 including all ages from zero to over 90 years-old. An uncontrolled forest fire has been burning for over five days. As firefighters battle the fire, city officials state the community is not in any danger. However, the thick smoke is covering the town. The healthcare workers are working hard to treat people of the community with chronic lung problems (Pearson Health Science, 2009). Hospital The local hospital is a 362 inpatient bed facility (Pearson Health Science, 2009). The raging fire has the emergency room and local offices seeing an increase of patients suffering breathing problems...
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...legislation and policies that govern the military’s role when supporting law enforcement in a domestic terrorism crisis and highlights some of the issues confronting the U.S. government. To fully understand the military’s role in domestic crisis response it is necessary to explore existing national level structures and response options prior to the involvement of military forces. (Terrorism and the Military’s Role in Domestic Crisis Management, 2003) Crisis management is predominately a law enforcement function that manages the resources necessary to prevent or resolve a terrorist incident. Current U.S. government terrorism response policy is contained in presidential directives. Among other matters, these directives address National Security Council structure and federal agency crisis response roles when responding to a domestic terrorism incident. (Terrorism and the Military’s Role in Domestic Crisis Management, 2003, CRS6, para 3, line 7). National Security Council (NSC), U.S. agency within the Executive Office of the President, established by the National Security Act in 1947 to advise the president on domestic, foreign, and military policies related to national security. (National Security Council, 2012). Terrorism involves the use or threat of violence and seeks to create fear, not just within the direct victims but among a wide audience. The degree to which it...
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...Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Nur 408 March 5, 2012 Sandi Wheeler Community Emergency Preparedness and Response A disaster, whether natural or man-made, generates several emotions, illnesses, and losses. When a community is confronted with a disaster, such as a forest fire, they rely on an emergency preparedness plan for structure and guidance. With this emergency situation, the community is facing the potential of an out-of-control forest fire. Officials contend the fire is currently contained; however, winds are steadily increasing putting this community at risk for disaster. This fire has already burned numerous acres and is on the fifth day of burning (The Neighborhood News, n.d.). The air in the community is now thick with pollutants and smoke which is affecting many individual’s respiratory track. The Neighborhood News, a local newspaper, recommends individuals remain indoors until conditions improve in the community (Neighborhood News, n.d.). The paper also states community members will be given notice if the burn pattern of the fire changes with the winds (Neighborhood News, n.d.). Community emergency preparedness is essential for dynamic responses in life threatening situations. One the front line of defense is the public health department for community disasters (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). “The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 addressed the need to enhance public health and health care readiness...
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...Week 3 Application: Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response Abigail C. Diggs Walden Education NURS 4010-04: Family, Community and Population-Based Care November 3, 2013 Week 3: Application INTRODUCTION Natural disaster can be scary, chaotic and an tragic events for the entire community, city, state and even at the national level. In the events of an natural disaster, nurses played key role in planning before it can happen, and assessment when the disaster actually happens (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate or highlights some key role the nurse may played in the emergency preparedness and response to hurricane disaster in within a community during or the before the actual disaster. THE ROLE OF THE NURSE' DURING HURRICANE DISASTER Hurricanes are a large tropical storms that comes with heavy rains. Hurricanes contains winds that may be in excess of 74 miles per hour and large areas of rainfall, creating flooding. In addition, hurricanes have the potential to create large and dangerous tornadoes (http://www.severeweather.com/hurricanes). The ocean-water temperature has to be above 79-degree for hurricane to developed. Therefore, hurricanes happened in late summer and early fall. Meteorologist used the term tropical storms when the winds are under 74 miles per hour and hurricanes when it rises above 74 miles hour. A hurricanes can last up to 2-weeks causes damages and in most causes it may be deadly...
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... Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, and the acquisition by individuals and teams of performance skills achieved through training, drills, exercises and critiques. The process varies considerably among communities. In some communities, planning is formalized by a specific assignment of responsibility to an office having an identifiable budget. In other communities, planning is informal: Responsibility is poorly defined, and a limited budget is dispersed among many agencies. Similarly response plans and procedures may be mostly written or mostly unwritten. Such variability exists despite federal and state requirements for community emergency planning because local governments vary in their capacity (especially funding) and their commitment to emergency management. Thus, for many years, higher levels of government described their standards for emergency preparedness as "guidance." Exercises are an integral part of preparedness in emergency management and homeland security. Absent participating in an actual incident, there is no better way for us to evaluate plans, procedures, decision-making, operational capability and various other factors. Although these exercises utilize resources that are finite, they are an investment that pays a significant return. The National Preparedness System Description states that “an effective...
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...Palestine Red Cresent Society Vulnerability & Capacity Assessment A Participatory Action Research Study of the Vulnerabilities and Capacities of the Palestinian Society in Disaster Preparedness August 2000 INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRECSENT SOCIETIES United Nations Children's Fund West Bank & Gaza Vulnerability & Capacity Assessment A Participatory Action Research Study of the Vulnerabilities and Capacities of the Palestinian Society in Disaster Preparedness Palestine Red Crescent Society August 2000 Copyright © Palestine Red Crescent Society 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval sysems without prior permission from The Palestine Red Crescent Society, Al-Bireh, Palestine. For further infromation: Palestine Red Crescent Society Headquarters/ Al-Bireh P.O.Box 3637 Tel: ++972-2-2406515/6/7 Fax: ++972-2-2406518 e-mail: info@PalestineRCS.org Website: www.PalestineRCS.org Thanks to technical support of UNICEF West Bank and Gaza to this study and to the financial contribution of UNICEF- Middle East and North Africa Regional office who made the design and printing of this publication possible. Special thanks to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for their technical and financial support to carrying this study. Cover...
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...UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI PROJECT ON “ .” SUBMITTED BY AMARKUMAR SURYAWANSHI ROLL NO.: 38 ADVANCED ACCOUNTANCY PART 1 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF COMMERCE 2015-16 UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF PROF. VINOD CHANDWANI VIDYA PRASARAK MANDAL, THANE K.G.JOSHI COLLEGE OF ARTS & N.G. BEDEKAR COLLEGE OF COMMERECE CHENDANI BUNDER ROAD, THANE-400601 Declaration I, student of M.Com. (Part - I) Roll No. : 38 hereby declare that the project title “disaster management ” for the subject strategic management submitted by me for semester - I of the academic year 2015-16, is based on actual work carried out by me under the guidance and supervision of PROF.vinodchadwani. I further state that this work is original and not submitted anywhere else for any examination. PLACEAmarkumarSuryawanshi ROLL NO: 38 DATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is indeed a great pleasure and proud privilege to present this project work. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude and acknowledge to all the individuals involved both directly and indirectly for their valuable help and guidance. This project has been an attempt to give information about the “disaster management”. I expressed my deep since of gratitude to founder and president of VidyaPrasarakMandal. I express my heartful thanks to our honorable Principal for her constant support and motivation. I express special thanks to my guide Prof. Vinodchandwaniunder whose guidence the project conceived...
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...has the obligation of making a crucial decision whether: to act cooperatively now to address the problem, to prefer to move independently or to decide to be passive and suffer the consequences of apathy together (Aquino III, 2014). Advance preparation of the government with the community can possibly reduce the casualties due to natural calamities and incidents. Therefore, implementation of disaster management and risk reduction activities among the community to promote calamity preparedness in the Philippines requires a collaborative effort. Disaster risk reduction management aims to enhance the resiliency of the Filipino people through changing the country’s tendency of increasing figures and loss from natural calamities, developing safe and resilient communities and assuring a long-lasting development for the whole nation through the implementation of disaster risk reducing projects such as the education for basic human needs storage and survival strategies of the community that is backed up by the past projects of the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). The implementation of disaster risk reduction management has a comprehensive coverage of organization and training to promote disaster preparedness, information dissemination and construction of facilities being supported by the Philippine government. The government equip specific departments through conducting trainings and seminars that tackles about emergency services which include rescue and relief services. For example...
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...Strategic Plan Risk Management FEMA Strategic Plan Risk Management FEMA’s Strategic Plan FY2011 - FY2014 states their mission is, “to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.” (FEMA Strategic Plan, February 2011 p.1) FEMA’s strategic goals are the following: (FEMA Strategic Plan, February 2011 p. 7) 1) Foster a Whole Community Approach to Emergency Management Nationally 2) Build the Nation’s Capacity To Stabilize and Recover From a Catastrophic Event 3) Build Unity of Effort and Common Strategic Understanding among the Emergency Management Team 4) Enhance FEMA’s Ability to Learn and Innovate as an Organization The risks of FEMA’s strategic plan include, but are not limited to,” climate change; the age of critical infrastructure; evolving terrorist threats; global interdependencies; government budgets; technical innovation and dependency; universal access to and use of information; and U.S. demographic shifts.” (FEMA Strategic Plan, February 2011 p. 4) These risks are inherent and are not within FEMA’s control. FEMA must focus on risks that are under their control. Eliminating ‘controllable’ risks can minimize the effects of these inherent risks, and ensure successful execution of their strategic plan. A controllable risk affecting the success of FEMA’s strategic plan is the support and commitment of the entire FEMA organization. ...
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...Empowering the Community to Adapt to Climate Change BACKGROUND Bangladesh, a low-lying country is known globally as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Factors contributing to its vulnerability includes its biophysical resources, particularly water which is highly sensitive to climate variability and change, along with high population density, high incidence of poverty, inadequate infrastructure and limited financial resources. This makes water resources, coastal zones and its resources, agriculture and human health the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. Around 66 per cent of the country’s labour force are engaged in agriculture and with their dependence on water, are likely to be hit the hardest by climate change1. The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has recognized climate change as an important issue and attempts are being made to incorporate potential measures for reducing climate change impacts into overall development planning. Bangladesh has developed the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). It has also incorporated climate change into its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The GoB realizes that to reduce the impacts of climate change it is necessary to work across sectors and with active participation of local communities. Thus, the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has been working since the 1970s with vulnerable communities, particularly women through the Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP), is in a unique position...
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...CIRDAP The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) is a regional, intergovernmental and autonomous institution. It was established in 1979 at the initiative of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations with support from other UN organisations and donor countries/agencies. The member countries of CIRDAP are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh (host state), Fiji Islands, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. The main objectives of the Centre are to: (i) assist national action, (ii) promote regional cooperation, and (iii) act as a servicing institution for its member countries for promotion of integrated rural development through research, action research, training and information dissemination. Amelioration of rural poverty in the Asia-Pacific region has been the prime concern of CIRDAP. The programme priorities of CIRDAP are set under four Areas of Concern: 1) Agrarian development; 2) Institutional/infrastructural development; 3) Resource development including human resources; and 4) Employment. Within these areas of concern, the thematic areas are: Poverty alleviation through participatory approaches with emphasis on social sector development (e.g. health, education and nutrition); Employment generation through microcredit support, infrastructure development and local resource mobilisation;...
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...FACTORS INFLUENCING AWARENESS OF DISASTER MITIGATION AND PREPAREDNESS AMONG NURSES AT THE CASUALTY DEPARTMENT AT KNH MALIK MWENDO H32/2258/2010 A Research Proposal Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements For The Conferment of The Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing Sciences In College of Health Sciences at The University of Nairobi. March 2014 List of abbreviations KNH - Kenyatta National Hospital JCAHO- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ABSTRACT CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Background Information A disaster can be defined as a sudden extraordinary event that brings great damage, loss, destruction and injury to people and their environment (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Bradt and Drummond (2007) also defined a disaster as a phenomenon that leads to massive destruction of infrastructure. A disaster can be classified either as man-made or natural incident that causes destruction that cannot be relieved without assistance. Disasters can also occur either internally, that is within the healthcare facility, or externally, that is outside the healthcare facility (Hassmiller, 2008). Disaster preparedness and management has changed dramatically since September 11, 2011. This incident raised the awareness towards disasters that made disaster management and response an issue that needed to be urgently addressed. After that in America there was the advent of the biological warfare that involved envelopes of anthrax...
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