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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219976003321

Autore

Moore Melinda

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, California : , : RAND Corporation, , 2012

ISBN

0-8330-7988-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 124 pages)

Collana

Technical report

Altri autori (Persone)

MooreMelinda

Disciplina

363.3480973

Soggetti

Emergency management - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

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.