Bridging the gap : prototype tools to support local disaster preparedness planning and collaboration / Melinda Moore [and eight others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Melinda, author.

Contributor:

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), Content Provider.

Moore, Melinda.

Series:

Technical report (Rand Corporation)

Technical report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 124 pages).

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

U.S. policymakers have stepped up systematic disaster preparedness efforts sharply since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a plethora of federal initiatives. Against a backdrop of natural disasters that occur each year in the United States and heightened concern about pandemic influenza, there is an emerging national consensus that the best path is an all-hazards approach to disaster preparedness planning and that effective local planning is critical. Military installations and their civilian counterparts-local government and local health-care providers, especially the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-can strengthen local-level disaster preparedness planning. This report describes the prototype capabilities-based planning tool that RAND developed and the two prototype networking tools that RAND adapted to help local military and civilian planners collaborate in disaster preparedness.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 6, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8330-7988-3

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access