Essay Problem: Emergency Management and Planning
For your Project, select one of the following disasters where circumstances, politics, and the media have elevated the disaster to a focusing event:
a) 2017 California wildfires,
b) Hurricane Harvey,
c) Hurricane Maria,
d) Las Vegas mass shooting, or
e) The Stoneman Douglas School Shooting.
These disasters will cause policy change affecting emergency management doctrine and comprehensive planning at all levels of government and the private sector. Provide an overview of the disaster, paying particular attention to the sections listed below.
Discuss future policy changes that would enhance emergency management. Lastly, reflect on how these changes will affect emergency management professionals at the local, state, federal and private sector.
Instructions
For the project problem, select a disaster above (focusing event) for your research.
Write a paragraph that describes the significance of this focusing event and what policy changes are likely to be implemented because of it.
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.