Emergency Planning guides readers through the steps of developing these emergency plans.

Features:

• Offers a number of strategies that will help ensure success
• Delves into the patterns of human disaster behavior, social psychology, and communication as well as the basics of generic protective actions, planning concepts, implementation, and action

Contents

1. Introduction to Emergency Planning: The Contexts of Emergency Planning
2. The Emergency Planning Process: Mandates, Structure and Guidelines
3. Patterned Human Behavior in Disasters: What a Planner Must Know
4. Fostering Successful Emergency Planning: A Planner’s Guide to Making it Work
5. Classes of Protective Action Recommendations: Emergency Planning Conditions and Considerations
6. Analyzing and Selecting Protective Actions: How to Make Effective Chioces
7. The Content and Format of Emergency Plans: Framing a Picture of the Planning Process
8. Continuity of Operations Plans: Keeping the Organization Alive
9. Milestones that Structure Emergency Planning: Organizing Tasks for Emergency Planners
10. Population Warning: Behavioral Foundations and Practical Applications
11. Planning for Hazard Adjustment: Protection Adoption, Hazard Awareness and Risk Communication
12. Structures for Managing Emergency Response: Executing Emergency Plan Provisions
13. Selected Federal Emergency Planning Mandates: Balancing Local Needs with Federal Requirements
14. Emergency Planning Professionalism and the Future: Professional Identity, Credentials, and Prospects

Index

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