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In your assignment for this week, address the following questions, integrating the knowledge you have gained during this week:

This week we have looked at some aspects of emergency management roles and responsibilities, including but not limited to coordination, standards, education, and tasks completed in-between emergencies.

• Compare what you thought about one of these aspects before starting this course and what you think after completing this module.

I encourage you to share your own experiences with emergency management, whether they are as a working practitioner, a person in need, or a news spectator. Relate these experiences to one or more of the aspects discussed in this module.

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In your assignment for this week, address the following questions,
integrating the knowledge you have gained during this week:
This week we have looked at some aspects of emergency
management roles and responsibilities, including but not limited to
coordination, standards, education, and tasks completed in-between
emergencies.
1- Compare what you thought about one of these aspects before
starting this course and what you think after completing this module.
2- I encourage you to share your own experiences with emergency
management, whether they are as a working practitioner, a person in
need, or a news spectator. Relate these experiences to one or more
of the aspects discussed in this module.
Below are Sources can be used to cover above points in this assignment
( note: the writer not require to use all below sources just can use some of
them to give him clear idea what kind of information can be used in this
assignment
M2 Readings 1
Complete the following readings and videos for this module prior to class
on 1/29:
Canton, Lucien G. 2020. Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for
Effective Programs. Second edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Inter Science.
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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Please complete the following addendums on the next few pages:
Video: The Essential Emergency Manager
Video: Thesis Series: A New Role for Emergency Management – Fostering Trust to
Enhance Collaboration
Paper: Coordination in Rapidly Evolving Disaster Response Systems: The Role of
Information
Paper: Organizational Culture and the Katrina Response in Louisiana
Video:Emergency Management 101: The Role of Emergency Management in Local
Government
M2 Readings 2
The Essential Emergency
Manager
Start this module by reading Chapter 3 in your textbook.
Then watch this short video with an interesting description of what
emergency managers do. As you watch, take some notes. The video will
crop up again in Module 8.
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The Essential Emergency ManagerLinks to an external site.
[time to watch: 4:54]
Source:

M2 Readings 3
Emergency Managers Working
Together
As much as we all concede that coordination and cooperation is an
essential component of emergency management, many times it still fails in
practice. But there are different levels of working together. While it is
essential that emergency managers as individuals are able to work
together, they must also be able to work within a group to accomplish
tasks, and that group must work with other groups within their own
organization. Furthermore, those individuals and groups of one
organization must also find ways to work successfully with individuals and
groups from other organizations. We saw the failure of this in Module 1,
especially with regards to Hurricane Katrina. Here we’ll revisit that but look
at the issues through some other lenses.
First, watch the following video in which a graduate student explains his
thesis research:
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Theses Series: A New Role for
Emergency Management – Fostering
Trust to Enhance CollaborationLinks
to an external site.
Now read the following two journal articles concerning coordination. As you
read, reflect upon your own experiences with coordination and cooperation,
not only in the realm if emergency management but also in other aspects of
your life. How can the information in these two articles be combined to
enhance professional relationships among emergency managers in
practice?
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Coordination in Rapidly Evolving
Disaster Response Systems: The
Role of Information
Organizational Culture and the
Katrina Response in Louisiana
Sources:

Comfort, Louise K., Kilkon Ko, and Adam Zagorecki. 2004. Coordination in
rapidly evolving disaster response systems: the role of information. The
American Behavioral Scientist Nov 2004, 48 (3): 295-313
Dowty, Rachel, Peter J. May, Colin E. Beech and William A. Wallace. 2011.
Organizational culture and the Katrina Response in Louisiana. Chapter 2
in Dynamics of Disaster: Lessons on Risk, Response, and
Recovery. Rachel Dowty and Barbara Allen (eds.) London: Earthscan. Pp.
29-46.
M2 Readings 4
The Role of the Emergency
Manager
Skim over Chapter 3 (“The Emergency Manager: Evolving Roles and
Shifting Paradigms”) in your textbook just to refresh your memory on what
you’ve already read.
Then watch the video of Jeff Copeland of Hillsborough County Emergency
Management explain the role of emergency management in local
government.
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Emergency Management 101: The
Role of Emergency Management in
Local GovernmentLinks to an external
site.
[time to watch:
7:51]
Source:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99sG5ujjt8&list=PL523CE08279168E5D