Natural Disaster Operations Planning

Abstract

This research was concerned with development of a general concept of emergency operations for natural disaster situations and a prototype natural diaster operations plan (NADOP). The concept is based on classifying the several types of disaster agents according to whether they have a destructive impact or a paralyzing effect on an operating zone. Contingencies provided for in the concept include alert, distant from impact, close to impact, damaged, but tenable, untenable, moderate hazards, and extreme hazards. Countermeasure actions are identified for each contingency. Nine basic operating situations (BOS) are defined according to the severity (negligible, moderate, extreme) of the threats posed by each class of disaster agent, either singly or in combination.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0740187

Entities

People

  • Charles T. Rainey

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • California
  • Civil Defense
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Disasters
  • Explosions
  • Fires
  • Flash Floods
  • Floods
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Hazards
  • Local Governments
  • Materials
  • Natural Disasters
  • Nongovernmental Organizations
  • Nuclear Fallout
  • Operations Research

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design