There are many reasons an emergency plan will fail when needed. Too often, it’s because planning mistakes make the plan unusable. This first in a series looks at common reasons plans fail.
The Emergency Support Function (ESF) system is a good planning tool, but a poor operational one.
Confusing want with need can be costly when it comes to emergency management.
The concept of equity” is driving fundamental change in how government delivers services. How will this new paradigm affect emergency management?
Two questions that I am frequently asked these days are what significant changes I have seen in emergency management in my some 40-odd years and what I think the future holds. That’s a little bit of a moving target as one of the things I have enjoyed about emergency management is that it is constantly […]
Disaster have both short and long term consequences. The challenge is separating the two and leveraging them to prepare for future events.
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Historical pandemics have the potential to offer many lessons as we recover from COVID 19 but learning those lessons require more analysis than just considering causal connections between events.
The push for racial justice has led to a re-examination of our traditional heroes. But are we approaching this in a way that makes sense?