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Environmental emergency management is an important practical subject for local governments. Understanding the different dimensions of environmental emergency management capability is crucial for enabling a well-informed governance performance. Based on the crisis management 4R theory (comprising four stages: reduction, readiness, response and recovery), PPRR emergency management theory (emergency management is categorized into four stages: prevention, preparation, response and recovery), crisis life cycle theory and ISO 22320, this paper divided local government environmental emergency management capability into four dimensions of a dynamic pre–during–post process: preparedness, early warning, response and recovery. This paper applied a confirmatory factor analysis model to confirm the classification standards of the four capabilities, which are strongly correlated within environmental emergency management. We found that China's local government environmental emergency management capability is generally at an upper-middle level, according to the empirical data. We also analyzed the regional differences in local government environmental emergency management capability across China and concluded that the environmental emergency management capability of local governments in the eastern region is higher than those in other regions. The capability levels in the central, western and northeastern regions are more similar to each other and show a decreasing distribution in the east–central–west–northeast region.

At present, the frequent occurrence of emergencies has threatened the safety of peoples lives and property. The complexity and dynamics of emergencies determine the difficulty for the government as a single entity to deal with in emergency management. The active participation of non governmental organizations, including social organizations, and the realization of the coordination and coupling with government departments are conducive to the improvement of emergency management capability in all aspects and the whole process. Wang Meiying | Yue Danni | Fu Nannan "Research on Emergency Capability Assessment" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-3 , April 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30533.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/risk-management/30533/research-on-emergency-capability-assessment/wang-meiying

In recent years, landslides occur frequently in China, which has brought great harm to people's life and social security. Based on the relevant literature on landslide events and emergency management ability evaluation, this study constructs a set of effective landslide emergency management ability evaluation index system. At the same time, this study also comprehensively uses quantitative analysis and qualitative research methods to construct the evaluation model of landslide emergency management ability, and takes the "7.23" Shuicheng landslide event in Guizhou as an example. The results show that our government's ability to deal with sudden landslides still needs to be improved, and the government should strengthen and improve early warning and prediction, information management and public opinion supervision. This study has certain practical significance and guiding role for the research of emergency management of sudden landslide.

Part 2: Information Systems, Information Modelling and Semantics ; International audience ; The Emergency Response Intelligence Capability (ERIC) tool, http://eric.csiro.au, automatically gathers data about emergency events from authoritative web sources, harmonises the information content and presents it on an interactive map. All data is recorded in a database which allows the changing status of emergency events to be identified and provides an archive for historical review.ERIC was developed for the Australian Government Department of Human Services Emergency Management team who is responsible for intelligence gathering and situation reporting during emergency events. Event information is combined with demographic data to profile the affected community. Identifying relevant community attributes, such as languages spoken or socioeconomic information, allows the department to tailor its response appropriately to better support the impacted community.An overview of ERIC is presented, including its use by the department and the difficulties overcome in establishing and maintaining a nationally consistent harmonised model of emergency event information. Preliminary results of republishing the emergency event information using the Australian Profile of the Common Alerting Protocol, an XML standard to facilitate the construction and exchange of emergency alert and warning messages, are also presented.

PurposeAnalytics thrives in navigating emergency situations. Emergency operations management needs to develop analytics empowerment capability (ANEC) to prepare for uncertainty, support continuity and tackle any disruptions. However, there is limited knowledge on ANEC and its effects on strategic emergency service agility (SESA) and emergency service adaptation (ESAD) in such contexts. Drawing on the dynamic capability (DC) theory, we address this research gap by developing an ANEC model. We also model the effects of ANEC on SESA and ESAD using SESA as a mediator. We also assess the moderating and quadratic effects of ANEC on two higher-order DCs (i.e. SESA and ESAD).Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the literature on big data, empowerment and DC, we develop and validate an ANEC model using data from 245 service systems managers in Australia. The study uses the partial least squares-based structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to prove the research model. The predictive power of the research model is validated through PLSpredict (k = 10) using a training sample (n = 220) and a holdout sample (n = 25).FindingsThe findings show that analytics climate, technological enablement, information access, knowledge and skills, training and development and decision-making ability are the significant components of ANEC. The findings confirm strategic emergency service agility as a significant partial mediator between ANEC and emergency service adaptation. The findings also discuss the moderating and quadratic effects of ANEC on outcome constructs. We discuss the implications of our findings for emergency situations with limitations and future research directions.Originality/valueThe findings show that building ANEC plays a fundamental role in developing strategic agility and service adaptation in emergency situations to prepare for disruptions, mitigate risks and continue operations.

U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials have promoted the Integrated Emergency Management System (IEMS) since 1981. IEMS has many components intended to serve all levels of government in developing, maintaining, and managing an efficient and cost-effective emergency management capability. This study analyzes the implementation of IEMS, and based upon interviews, and primary and secondary source information, reports what U.S. local emergency managers think of FEMA's IEMS initiative and how far local governments have gone in adopting IEMS. The author concludes that a variety of factors, which are separate from the IEMS concept itself have impeded FEMA's ability to successfully promote local government implementation of the IEMS approach to emergency management, but that IEMS remains an important move away from narrow purpose, single hazard program orientations of the past, to a broader, functional, and multi-hazard method of emergency management.

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This case study details the chemotoxic emergency management arrangements including detection, identification and measurement capabilities at a nuclear facility. The presentation will provide an overview of the regulatory drivers, the emergency management structure in response to chemotoxic events and the extended benefits having this capability has provided in reducing the sites chemical footprint.

Experience gained from NATO operations shows that the basis for an effective solution to a crisis is a combination of a comprehensive political, civilian and military approach. The cooperation of all stakeholders is thus a basic prerequisite for the effective resolution of crisis situations. These aspects and stakeholders include emergency management. This paper deals with civil-military cooperation in times of emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. It qualitatively evaluates the findings resulting from the questionnaire survey focused on the state of crisis preparedness of the Army of the Czech Republic and the functionality of emergency management in cooperation with rescue work with other teams of the rescue system. The questionnaire was carried out at military units in all regions of the Czech Republic; organizational units of the Ministry of Defence with nationwide competence, which were directly involved in securing measures related to the declaration of a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March-May, 2020; Operations Command, which currently manages operations in the Czech Republic designed to manage the consequences of a pandemic; and members of the Ministry of Defence participating in the activities of the Strategic Command and Control Group. A total of 21 stakeholders took part. The experience in managing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown that armed forces around the world have an irreplaceable position in dealing with nonmilitary crises. The conclusions and recommendations obtained from the research survey are the content of this paper.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)* -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Purpose of the NFIP -- Reduction of Comprehensive Flood Risk -- Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) and Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) -- Flood Zones -- Updating Flood Maps -- Map Corrections -- State and Local Land Use Controls -- Flood Mitigation Assistance Grants -- Primary Flood Insurance through the NFIP -- Standard Flood Insurance Policies (SFIPs) -- Mandatory Mortgage Purchase Requirement -- Preferred Risk Policies (PRPs) -- Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) Coverage -- Servicing of Policies and Claims Management -- Pricing and Premium Rate Structure -- Pre-FIRM Subsidy -- Newly Mapped Subsidy -- Grandfathering Cross-Subsidy -- Community Rating System -- Affordability Study and Framework -- Nonparticipating Communities and Community Suspension -- Funding -- Premium Fees and Surcharges -- Appropriations and Offsetting Receipts -- Borrowing from the U.S. Treasury, NFIP Debt -- NFIP Purchase of Reinsurance -- Expiration of Certain NFIP Authorities -- Chapter 2 -- Federal Disaster Assistance: The National Flood Insurance Program and Other Federal Disaster Assistance Programs Available to Individuals and Households after a Flood* -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Federal Assistance Available to Individuals and Families -- The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) -- Availability of Flood Insurance through the NFIP -- The Coastal Barrier Resources System and Flood Insurance -- Primary Flood Insurance through the NFIP -- Preferred Risk Policies -- Standard Flood Insurance Policies -- NFIP Coverage Limits: Single Family Dwellings -- NFIP Coverage Limits: Other Residential Buildings and Condominiums -- NFIP Claims -- Advance Payments from the NFIP

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze scholarly discussions and findings regarding collaborative emergency management (CEM). Several aspects such as leadership, decision making, intergovernmental and interorganizational relations, technology applications in CEM have been investigated.Design/methodology/approachLiterature review was conducted using three popular search data bases, Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, and Info Track OneFile using the following keywords: CEM, collaborative and emergency and management, collaborative networks, emergency networks, emergency network, interorganizational networks, Interorganizational and networks, intergovernmental and networks, and National Emergency Management Network (NEMN).FindingsThe paper emphasizes that high expectations of public and stakeholders in emergency and disaster management require effective use of resources by collaborative networks.Practical implicationsEmergency and disaster managers should be able to adopt their organization culture, structure and processes to the collaborative nature of emergency management.Originality/valueThe paper focuses on a very important subject in emergency and disaster management using NEMN as example.