Quizlet #3

What is the average of global economic loss related to disaster per year?

$880 Billion

There is a single overarching theory that is currently ascribed to in emergency management. True or False?

False

What are the three key stages of activities that are taken up within disaster risk management?

1. Before a disaster (pre-disaster) 2. During a disaster (disaster occurrence) 3. After a disaster (post disaster)

Name and define the three major components of a disaster management?

1. Hazard: A dangerous condition or event, that threat or have the potential for causing injury to life or damage to property or the environment. 2. Vulnerability: The extent to which a community, structure, or services, or geographic area is likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of particular hazard, on account of their nature, construction and proximity to hazardous terrains or disaster prone area. 3. Capacity: Resources, means, and strengths which exist in households and communities and which enable them to cope with, withstand, prepare for, prevent, mitigate, or quickly recover from a disaster.

What is Theory?

1. May refer to the ideal or preferred conditions that academics are trying to promote in the world around us. 2. Relates to the entire body of knowledge available in the given discipline. 3. One of the major purposes of theory is to clarify terms by providing sound academic definitions. 4. Equated frequently to concepts, which are heuristic devices that enable understanding. 5. May imply principles that promote ethics and standards in a particular filed of study or profession. 6. Classifications, or illustrations of comparison, are likewise synonymous with theory. 7. Typologies, which are organized categorizations, have a close relationship to theory. 8. Models are charts that show theoretical links between variables or relationships in or among groups. 9. One of the most significant types of theories or theoretical components is an explanations of causal relationships.

What does the level of risk depend on?

1. Nature of the hazard 2. Vulnerability of the elements which are affected. 3. Economic value of those elements

What should theory of Emergency management include?

1. Retain the findings from prior research in the field. 2. Continue to search for an accepted definition of disasters. 3. Seek an alternative name for the field of emergency management. 4. Acknowledge all types of hazards--whether they are natural, technical, or civil. 5. Establish a multi-causal view of disasters and appreciate complexity in emergency management. 6. Embrace each of the different actors involved in emergency management, regardless of whether they are from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. 7. Maintain a reliance on the phase of disasters. 8. Integrate research from each of the contributing disciplines.

What are ten significant problems that hinder the development of knowledge in emergency management?

1. What is a disaster? 2. What is emergency management? 3. What hazards should we focus on? 4. Should we continue to give preference to the concept of hazards? 5. What variables should be explored in academic research. 6. What actors should be incorporated into academic studies? 7. What phases should be given priority? 8. What disciplines should contribute to emergency management? 9. What paradigms should guide our field? 10. What is the proper balance for knowledge generation?

Explain what is a profession.

A profession is an occupation that is esoteric, complex, and discretionary. It requires theoretical knowledge, skill, and judgement that others do not possess or cannot easily comprehend. It embodies self-directing work and occupies a position of legal of political privilege that protects it from competing professions.

How does the United Nations define disasters?

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic, and environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community/society to cope using its own resources.

What is a disaster and where does the term originate from?

A sudden adverse or unfortunate extreme event which causes great damage to human beings as well as plants and animals.. French word "desastre" (bad start)

What is a Hamiltonian public manager?

A technocrat who possesses a special knowledge and expertise most average citizens do not have and who works under norms of objectivity and political neutrality.

Why is abstraction important in a profession?

It helps produce testable propositions and knowledge that is generalizable and it helps individual scholars transcend the world of single case studies. It provides a basis for improved qualitative and quantitative examinations of social and physical phenomena.

What is statecraft of political administration?

Office using by people in a variety of circumstances at the top of the executive branch government. Statecraft is using and risking political power through action.

What is the aim of emergency management?

To develop new theory, or adapt old theory, to produce manageable theory.