09 Nov review questions
Note: Please read each question very well and answer according to each question
1. What are the initiatives that help local communities to mitigate/prepare against potential terrorist attacks? Why is community preparedness an important component of homeland security? Will FEMAs Whole Community concept work to help individuals and communities to be better prepared?
2. Discuss the content and potential benefits of the National Prevention Framework.
3. What mitigation/preparedness role does the private sector have in terms of homeland security? Do you believe that the private sector learned lessons from the 9/11 terrorist attacks?4. What role do and/or should volunteer efforts such as the CNCSs FEMA Corps and the American Red Cross play in preparedness and mitigation activities?
5. Try to define terrorism mitigation using the common definition of mitigation in terms of the all-hazards approach. (Hint: Define risk as a combination of probability and consequence, and list all potential activities that can reduce both components of the potential terrorist event.)
6. Take a quick look at the FEMA document, BIPS 06/FEMA 426, Reference Manual to Mitigate Potential Terrorist Attacks against Buildings (available at www.fema.gov). What are the two most important factors to minimize damage caused by car bombs to buildings?
1. Explain how the national response framework is supposed to work.
2. what can you do as an individual to help Homeland security do its job. Fully explain and give examples.
3. Explain the “All Hazard” response philosophy. Use examples.
4. What are the primary difference between Mitigation and preparedness? Give three examples of each.
1. Identify and discuss the four critical assumptions underlying the crisis communications efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the 1990s.
2. Discuss how the role of the traditional media in crisis communications has changed.
3. Discuss the emergence of social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube as a preferred means of communications before, during, and after a disaster event.
4. Discuss how information posted on social media sites might be harvested by government officials in order to increase their situational awareness and make resource allocation decisions.
5. Discuss how emergency managers can operationalize data generated by social media users before, during, and after a disaster event.
6. Discuss how emergency managers/homeland security officials can build an effective crisis communications strategy in a changing media world.
