Emergency management is facing a lot of risks ranging from political tensions, social and demographic changes and emerging risks. The future of emergency risk is bright but needs to be tuned to feature in that future. In this super digital age, technology is becoming community based (Rubin). It has been designed for communication and collaboration. Therefore, professional operators need to use technology to predict behaviors. Such technologies enable managers to know events before, during and after disasters and how to avoid them (Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola 45). Understanding the economy will enable emergency managers to identify which economies they can allocate resources and share them accordingly. Politics is a key factor that emergency management needs to understand. It affects disaster response and recovery (Sylves 35). The sensitivity of politics and shifting political influences need to be understood. Focus should be focused equally for any disaster occurrence. Places that require attention and are critical should be considered regardless of their location.
In order to ensure that emergency management remains relevant is capable of responding, recovering and mitigating effectively, it needs to adopt some certain changes.
The government and other stakeholders should reinforce planning frameworks that will incorporate families and societies at large. For instance, in the event of power loss during storms, how will the communities get rescued? Thus, emergency management should have plans for the communities that are basically intended to educate and to inform them about safety precautions. They need to have a curriculum on safety measures and mitigation procedures (Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola 91). The society should understand the essentials of personal protective equipment and the how to maneuver through disasters. Emergency management should therefore empower the society.
Continuous surveys of disaster prone areas need to be done. Emergency management should have a framework that can track down disasters and systems that can predict such events (Rubin). For instance, food shortages and loss of AC power can be noticed easily before it happens where a thorough audit of the situation is done consistently. It becomes easy to avoid such disasters in future.
Emergency management requires new and highly trained operators. They should undergo assessment training and taught on good operating practices. Operators should be empowered more on various disaster situations and imparted with skills for sophisticated catastrophes.
Works cited
Haddow, George, Jane Bullock, and Damon P. Coppola. Introduction to emergency management. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013.
Rubin, Claire B., ed. Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010. CRC Press, 2012.
Sylves, Richard. Disaster Policy and Politics: Emergency Management and Homeland Security: Emergency Management and Homeland Security. CQ Press, 2014.
