Emergency and Disaster Management

Overview: Begin each assignment by going through the material in the Lessons. Review any feedback or templates that has been provided to you by the instructor. Review the APA manual or other APA Resource material as the instructor indicates. Ensure that you do not make any repeat errors in your papers. Your papers will be heavily discounted or returned for resubmission if you do not show an effort to improve your work.

Readings: See attached documents

Assignment: Provide an approximate 1500-word document analyzing important concepts in the readings. Ensure your apply the discussion points and assume you are writing for an uninformed reader that knows nothing about the topic and has not read what you read. Provide an introduction that gives the background of the resource that you are reviewing, so the reader will understand what they are reading and why.

Analyze, discuss, and apply the following:

• the relationship between the local response, the state response, and the federal response to a disaster to include the presidential disaster declaration system and the Stafford Act
• FEMA’s Individual Assistance and Public Assistance for programs for recovery
• Community Capacity Building for recovery
• the purpose of disaster communication and it’s assumptions
• the elements of an effective disaster communication program

DO NOT list out the topics or questions and answer them. Provided APA formatted headings. Ensure that you meet or exceed the 1500-word target, and that your paper meets APA presentation requirements.

Rubric: Papers will be graded using the graduate rubric, with attention paid to comprehension, depth of knowledge, and clear expression of ideas and arguments. Additionally, adherence to APA conventions will be required.