Phases and Professional Activities
The nature of management depends on local, economic and social conditions. Some disaster relief experts, such as Fred Cuny, have stated that in a sense the only real disasters are economic. Cuny stated that the cycle of Emergency Management must include long-term work on infrastructure, public awareness, and even human justice issues. The process of Emergency Management involves four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
Recently the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA have adopted the terms "resilience" and "prevention" as part of the paradigm of EM. The latter term was mandated by PKEMA 2006 as statute enacted in October 2006 and made effective March 31, 2007. The two terms definitions do not fit easily as separate phases. Resilience, describes the goal of the four phases: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.
Comprehensive Emergency Management: To be effective, Emergency Management requires an integrated approach that pays attention to all phases and types of emergencies, whether natural or man-made, organization and availability of resources (Broder, 2006). This concept is a security risk management method that uses the all-hazards approach which when applied enhances organizational resilience (Talbot &Jakeman 2009). This approach consists of four components:
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