Discussion Board 6
Science has a main role in the process of terrorism and emergency management.
According to Sylves (2015) an example would be when mitigating flood risk, scientist would
consider and study how homes could avoid the floodplains and in addition, how to successfully
enforce the building codes to protect the citizens property from hurricanes. Also, science can
identify a problem, develop understanding from research, inform policy and practice and make a
difference that can be objectively demonstrated when evaluated. Sharing of information and thus
provide knowledge transfer to policy-makers and other disaster risk reduction partners.
As it relates to the each emergency management phase, an all-hazard, risk-based,
problem-solving approach should be used in disaster risk reduction research to address the
multifactorial and interdependent nature of the disaster risk chain and to achieve improved
solutions and better-optimized use of resources. This requires collaboration and communication
across the scientific disciplines and with all stakeholders, including representatives of
governmental institutions, scientific and technical specialists and members of the communities at
risk to guide scientific research, set research agendas, bridge the various gaps between risks and
between stakeholders, and support scientific education and training. Having the knowledge of
what tools and resources are available at any given point during a response and making them
available to researchers is one of the goals of science preparedness (DiEuliis, 2015).
Preparedness identifies key functions to be performed after a disaster and can involve things such
as warning systems and pre-disaster actions taken to promote safety and initiate community
disaster response (Sylves, 2015).
In my opinion, one part that I feel has an imperative impact on disaster mitigation and
response is the efforts to have scientists create a system to effectively notify people in the event
of disasters such as possible tornadoes and sometimes hurricanes path. Not to say that here isn’t
a system in place, but to have a more advance system one day that is more accurate in the path
would be beneficial to the public.
References
DiEuliis, D. (2015, August 21). The role of scientific collections in scientific preparedness.
Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517712/
Sylves, R. T. (2015). Disaster policy and politics: Emergency management and homeland
security (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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