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This earlier focus in the US largely centered on preparing for nuclear attack during the Cold War.
Civil Defense
This federal agency coordinates national disaster response and recovery efforts in the United States.
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
This system provides a standardized structure for managing incident response across agencies.
Incident Command System (ICS)
This planning describes how an organization continues its essential functions during disruption.
Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP)
This was the first center in the world dedicated to the study of social science aspects of disasters, founded in 1960.
Disaster Research Center (DRC)
Name one of the four phases of the disaster management cycle.
Either preparedness, mitigation, response or recovery
This framework describes how the United States organizes and coordinates disaster response.
National Response Framework (NRF)
The person responsible for the overall management of an incident under ICS.
Incident Commander (IC)
This concept describes how governments preserve authority and leadership during crises.
Continuity of Government (COG)
Research shows disasters usually do NOT cause this widespread behavior often depicted in movies.
Mass and widespread panic
This early social scientist studied the Halifax explosion, and both grounded his work in social concepts and made an applied contribution.
Samuel H. Prince
This 1988 federal law allows the President to issue disaster declarations and provide assistance to states
Stafford Act
This physical location is where the command staff coordinates response operations in the field.
Incident Command Post (ICP)
What does KPF stand for?
Key Planning Functions
This concept describes community cultural patterns shaped by frequent disaster exposure.
Disaster Subculture
What was the name and year of the first disaster law signed that allowed the federal government to provide disaster relief without new congressional approval?
This federal department was created in 2003 and brought FEMA under a larger structure.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
This center coordinates strategic emergency management operations for a jurisdiction.
Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
This comprehensive plan describes how a jurisdiction prepares for and responds to disasters. Its acronym is EOP.
Emergency Operations Plan
This psychological concept describes belief in one’s ability to take action and achieve desired outcomes.
Self-efficacy
This 1978 reorganization plan centralized many federal disaster functions and led to the 1979 creation of what?
FEMA
This federal coordination structure organizes disaster response responsibilities and service provision across agencies
Emergency Support Functions (ESFs)
This federal coordination location is established when national resources support disaster response.
Joint Field Office (JFO)
This mutual assistance agreement allows states to share personnel and resources during emergencies.
EMAC (Emergency Management Assistance Compact)
This approach asks “How likely is this to happen?” when analyzing hazards.
Probabilistic thinking