Improving Your Community's Emergency Response - An Indroduction to Disaster Planning.

Abstract

The report describes local comprehensive preparedness planning in non-technical language. The document is based on research findings and reported experience involving human behavior and organization in disaster. The presentation is geared to the non-professional reacer, and seeks to initiate him into a process of full-time, year-round planning to combat the multiple hazards which may threaten his community. The research is presented in a format which is readily adaptable to the purposes of Defense Civil Preparedness Agency planning, educational, training, and other programs. The following topics are discussed: Developing professional leadership; Your community and disaster planning; Threat; Warning; Trans- and post-impact-the human side; Communications-reaching the public; Post-disaster-agenda for the future; The nuclear case; How does your community rate.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0762067

Entities

People

  • William G. Gay
  • William W. Chenault

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Communities
  • Disaster Management
  • Disasters
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Response
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Leadership
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • STEM Education
  • Systems Analysis and Design