The challenge of managing emergencies depends on effective planning, and the ability to connect elements and stakeholders of the emergency response into coherent strategies. This research article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science lays out the importance of disaster planning across of wide range of incident of different sizes, as well as provides recommendations and best practices for the elaboration of preparedness and response plans.
This report by the ICAD team identifies best practices and lessons learned from several disasters and incident in New Zealand and Australia based on four National Preparedness Goal Core Capabilities: Community Resilience, Environmental Response/Health and Safety, Community Planning and Capacity Building and Economic Recovery. The recommendations outlined in this report are aimed at the United States and the Los Angeles area, but can be applied in a broader context to other regions and nations.
Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC). (2011). After-Action Report.
Date Added: Jan. 1, 2017
Central United States Earthquake Consortium After-Action Report outlines five years of planning efforts of the New Madrid Catastrophic Planning Project.
This FEMA manual describes how FEMA national staff coordinate incident related operations defines the activities of Federal assistance that support citizens and first responders in the response, recovery, and mitigations of hazards.
The Hyogo Framework provides recommendation and guidance to build a resilience and strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards at the national level.
The Sendai Framework is the successor instrument to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters.
This document outlines guidelines and recommendations for the development of an agent-specific contingency plan, namely a national environmental contingency plan.
This report serves as a manual for policy makers, planners, disaster managers and environmental and conservation groups that wish to make use of available mitigation tools and techniques to decrease the vulnerability of their community to future hazards.
This report provides Canadians, parliamentarians, Ministers, and other governmental officials with an evidence-based assessment of the relevance and performance (effectiveness, efficiency and economy) of this federal government initiative for disaster and emergency management.
This paper explores the strengths and weaknesses of the use of after action and how they may be used to maximize knowledge management and lessons to better the design of public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) exercises.
