Fair Or False Areas: Is It Fair?

This paper is designed to show you the differences between the way conservatives and progressives view the federal role in emergency management. Furthermore, the advantages and disadvantages of each them. Also, we will discuss what you should expect as a practitioner of the profession on how to prepare yourself when you would like to switch from one to the other. Most importantly discuss the criteria of a natural disaster and how human and social perception factors inter play with each other. One question at hand is do we blame the victim? What does “blaming the victim” means? Is there any validity to this or not? Does this concept influence the way our society responds to disaster or any other event that may occur? These are some of

Natural Disasters are very difficult to control and they most often create divided opinion among citizens of states. Authorities are always at crossroads with the citizens when trying to implement policies that are likely to force homeowners to evacuate when natural disaster is looming. Implementing forceful arrest and evacuation of people who are unwilling to leave during natural disasters is a good policy which will simply protect lives and valuable properties of victims. Since the aftermath of natural disasters cannot be predicted, it becomes necessary to evacuate, albeit, forcefully, as smaller potential natural disasters can turn

Organizations over the past few decades have come to realize two things, there are a limited number of people in the government that are able to respond to natural disasters or large scale disaster effectively and that the government only has so many available resources to offer during a time of crisis. Another fact is, that private sector companies and non-profit entities, such as the Red Cross, have the ability to be more prepared due to their vast network of stores and distribution centers and their leisure, they indeed do have a unique responsibility

Solutions to this continued problem could include reserving more funds into the natural disasters budget. This would provide a safety net for the citizens of the affected state along with the salaries of those helping such as firefighters and police. This raises the question, would the money actually be spent benefiting those needing assistance, and would it be filtered into a different budget without the citizens

People respond to a natural disaster by government aid. The government isn't always helping in a good way. The government is hoarding much needed supplies (Doc C). They are only helping a select few that they choose (Doc C). There are some good things that they are doing that help more people. “3,000 people remain housed in a temporary evacuation centers established by the government” (Doc A). I feel that they aren’t doing everything they can to their full

of the community could be abused by the wrong people. FEMA was created to help those in need in the event of a catastrophe but, others are literally robbing the victims because of their own selfish reasons. Fraud is illegal, those thieves should be prosecuted.

Chris Edwards states that the FEMA looks a first hero against any disasters in the United States, and the FEMA is responsible before, during and after any disaster (Edwards, 2014). In this manner, the FEMA spent a lot of money to recover the recently happened disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005. According to Edwards, “federalism” should support on the efforts to prevent any disasters, to get rid of them, and to recover them as quickly as possible to serve the American people properly. Of course, all Americans should support and put efforts to recover of any kind of disasters that the Americans already proved this in the past. Another issue is about bringing the places affected by a disaster in a good situation, which means “restoration,” as Norman E. McSwain Jr. states in his essay (McSwain, 2010, 587-591). For example, McSwain states that one of the most restoration of the cities affected by Katrina was about health care situation (McSwain, 2010, 587-591). In

There has been a great development in the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) responds to natural disasters. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and wildfires in California are three major disasters that required a large FEMA response and recovery effort. These three natural disasters stressed the resources and abilities FEMA has in their arsenal. As any good organization does, FEMA learned from their experiences and mistakes in order to handle the next challenge they have to face accordingly. Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people, caused $81 billion in property damages, and 90,000 square miles (11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina). There was much controversy over the response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

For the past 35 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, commonly known as FEMA, has been dedicated to preparing, protecting, responding and serving the American people following major disasters and crisis. Effective on April 1, 1979 under President Jimmy Carter’s administration and funded through federal funding, FEMA has been committed to preparing, protecting, responding and assisting in recovery efforts in the state as well as the local government during crisis and disasters. Similarly to any agency, FEMA has faced many challenges when providing funding to victims and survivors of disasters. Critics have criticized FEMA in their response to disasters.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the lead federal agency accountable for disaster management in the United States and known to assist other countries. FEMA is the preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts for disasters (FEMA.gov| Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2017). The clean-ups are very costly and require the involvement of numerous federal programs and agencies. They are known to help the government private and non- private sectors. It is vital and a necessity to have FEMA help states that have reached a major crisis. That is outlined in their policy to help and recover states that have been through horrific natural disasters. However, the issue that is arising is the continuous funding

Tragic events that cause damage to property and life may destroy the social, cultural and economic life of a community. Communities must be engaged in the various phases from prevention to recovery to build disaster resilient communities. In order to do this, there must be a disaster preparedness plan in place that involves multiple people in various roles.

Data obtained by assessing social vulnerability must be implemented within each phase of the emergency management process; mitigation, response, and recovery. First, to effectively respond and recover from incidents emergency management agencies must concentrate on the mitigation phase to prevent incidents from happening in the first place. This is achieved through a thorough hazard/vulnerability analysis (HVA). This type of analysis assesses the risk of physical, economic, and social vulnerability within all communities of a given jurisdiction (Lindell et al., 2006, p. 165). Additionally, the basis of the HVA allows emergency managers to effectively plan for disaster by creating pre-planned responses to disasters (rather than improvised response) and staging resources to locations with the highest probability of risk; ultimately contributing to the mitigation and response phases.

During the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Fema unfairly allocating funding resources to White and black residents of hurricane Katrina. Fema displayed racism by giving insurance money base of race. It has been documented from the press computer analysis reported by Cnn “Though poor and minority neighborhoods suffered the brunt of Katrina's fury, residents living in white neighborhoods have been three times as likely as homeowners in black neighborhoods to seek state help in resolving insurance disputes, according to an Associated Press computer analysis” (Alfonso Serrano). This shows problems with the system they uses to give out funds. If Fema would have done a first come first sever bases, Fema could have assisted in helping all victims

The approach that I chose to discuss is Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). I chose POS because it is considered a new movement in organizational science. The idea of POS is to find the good aspects of the organization and build change to help spread these things throughout. The thing that stood out to me as a positive is when Palmer, Dunford and Akin (2009) state “approaches therefore seek out instances of positive deviance, that is those dynamics leading to exceptional individual and organization performance such as developing human strength, producing resilience and restoration, and fostering vitality” (p.202). I believe that developing human strength is a positive for any organization. It’s a big part of the Air Force with supervising

Risk for disasters is a part of life; emergency situations occur more frequently than many people believe. A wise person plans for the worse, and hopes for the best. After a disaster, how well a community can recover will depend largely on how well they prepared in advance. Risk management includes identifying any potential risks to a community and proactively planning to minimize the threat. Proactive organization of resources and people to respond to emergencies can mean the difference between a community’s ability to regroup and recover, and the loss of life. To better