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QUESTION #1 (25 points): You are the head of emergency management for the country of Vanaprastha and will take a delegation of emergency planners to the United States to study intermediate-term and long-term flood recovery. The US Department of State has arranged meetings in a variety of locations that have dealt with flood recovery: Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota, Iowa, and Kansas (Missouri River and its tributaries in spring 2019), Texas (Hurricane Harvey in 2017), Colorado (rains in 2013), New York City and coastal New Jersey (Superstorm Sandy in 2012), Ellicott City, Maryland (flash flooding in 2016 and 2018), and New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (Hurricane Katrina in 2005).

To prepare, outline at least 7 flood recovery topics that your delegation will discuss at each stop on the trip including key activities and capabilities, along with the principles and factors that promote or impede success in those activities. For each topic, define what it entails and why it is important to communities recovering from devastating floods.

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QUESTION #2 (25 points): Maintaining good situational awareness to a large-scale, swift onset event is one of the major challenges during response. The term VUCA – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – is often used to characterize such events. Discuss how the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) structures are designed to promote situational awareness and better implementation of incident action plans.

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QUESTION #3 (25 points): The term “resilience” is often viewed in terms of the operating capacity of an organization to react to and recover from a disaster. Discuss the concept of Disaster Resilience in terms of capabilities and resources, and the strategies and tactics an organization might use to address gaps in capabilities and resources.

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QUESTION #4 (25 points): After a series of adverse events, near misses, and one catastrophic incident, a cruise line corporation has hired you to revamp its emergency operations plans and preparations. The company’s fleet of cruise ships has experienced a series of recent incidents including the Norwalk virus spreading among passengers; small and large fires while at sea and in port; a prolonged power outage; and a major accident where a ship struck rocks, compartments flooded, and the ship partially sank.

For each of the four types of incidents, what would be the main points in a hazard-specific annex to the overall emergency operations plan? Also identify at least two National Response Framework (NRF) Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) the company needs, and the broad concept of operations for each chosen ESF.

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QUESTION #5 (25 points): Risks associated with natural and technological hazards and terrorist threats arise from both internal and external factors. Identify at least 5 external risks associated with natural and technological hazards and terrorist threats (either threats or vulnerabilities to external threats) that can affect a critical infrastructure owner or operator. For each external risk identified, propose at least 2 ways the risk could be managed.

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Statement Attesting to Original Work

With this assignment, as with all others, you must adhere to UMGC policies regarding academic integrity. Avoid plagiarism, both intentional and inadvertent, and provide accurate documentation and attribution of the work of others.

UMUG's policy recommends "carefully following accepted scholarly practices. Notes taken for papers and research projects should accurately record sources of material to be cited, quoted, paraphrased or summarized, and papers and research projects should acknowledge these sources in references." (Policy 150.25 - Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism).

The work you submit will be evaluated using the services of Turnitin.com and other methods.

You must also include the following Statement Attesting to Original Work in your submitted assignment document attesting that you are submitting work that is original and that complies with standards for academic honesty.

"This paper, examination, report, or the section thereof for which I have indicated responsibility, is my own work. Any assistance I received in its preparation is acknowledged within the report or examination, in accordance with academic practice. For any data, ideas, words, diagrams, pictures, or other information from any source, quoted or not, I have cited the sources fully and completely in the text, in endnotes, or in footnotes and bibliographical entries, as required. Furthermore, I certify that the material was prepared by me specifically for this class and has not been submitted, in whole or significant part, to any other class in this university or elsewhere, or used for any purpose other than satisfying the requirements of this class, except that I am allowed to submit this material to a professional publication, peer reviewed journal, or professional conference. In adding my name following the word 'Signature', I intend that this certification will have the same authority and authenticity as a document executed with my hand-written signature."

Signature ______________________________ Date ______________

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