Explaining the pre-disaster integration of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs)

Carr, John; Jensen, Jessica

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“…These contradictory behaviors usually lead to many problems in disaster emergency response, such as resource waste, and inequity of service for all affected people. In order to avoid this condition, these communities (local and global) should perform their activities as a subgroup of activities defined in an integrated framework [5,7,12].…”

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A framework for Earthquake Emergency Response in Iran

Najafi

Eshghi

2019

Scientia Iranica

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Earthquake is common natural disaster in Iran, often accompanied by huge damages, losses and casualties. Therefore, focusing on earthquake response management, and improving its effectiveness is an important issue for the national disaster management organization. This paper proposes a framework to improve this process in Iran. The proposed framework attempts to coordinate governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in earthquake response. It also allows governments to systematize the obligations and responsibilities of these organizations, and mitigate the earthquake fatalities and casualties. Moreover, this study discusses the key considerations for implementing the proposed framework, and analyzes it for distinct scales of earthquake.

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A framework for Earthquake Emergency Response in Iran

Najafi

Eshghi

2019

Scientia Iranica

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“…Moreover, several foreign rescue or relief teams, including the Red Cross Society of Taiwan and Tzu Chi Foundation, joined the relief efforts. Through the Wenchuan Earthquake Taiwan Service Alliance, the Red Cross worked together with numerous NPOs from Taiwan to provide disaster services for victims [2,14].…”

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“…However, the disaster services of NPOs and NPO strategies for network building and resource integration have not been comprehensively studied. Many local governments face challenges in integrating voluntary manpower, which influences the integration of regional disaster NPOs [14]. To counter this, local governments have attempted to develop collaborative mechanisms among NPOs before the occurrence of catastrophic events.…”

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Collaboration Mechanisms of Taiwan Nonprofit Organizations in Disaster Relief Efforts: Drawing Lessons from the Wenchuan Earthquake and Typhoon Morakot

Chang

2018

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Participation of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) is important in emergency management because NPOs often work in conjunction with governments to offer assistance and resources in the emergency management process. NPO participation in disaster relief efforts is a valuable experience for public officials and practitioners, but research investigating NPOs’ experiences in disaster relief efforts is limited. This study examines Taiwan’s NPO collaboration mechanisms during disaster relief efforts and specifically examines the lessons drawn from two major catastrophes by focusing on the opinions of NPO managers in the 88 Flooding Service Alliance who joined the disaster relief operation for the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China and 2009 Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. The vital strategies and factors that contributed to successful NPO collaborations in disaster relief operations were determined through a survey on NPOs’ strategies for resource sharing and service integration and semi-structured interviews with 19 NPO managers. The findings indicate that NPO engagement in disaster services was crucial for the relief efforts of the two disaster events, and that long-term disaster service alliances are effective mechanisms for emergency collaboration in relief work.

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“…Also, another author writing about the culture of preparedness as a mindset, McKenna (2009), interviewed and quoted Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, commander of the Joint Task Force Katrina, who declared "creating a culture of preparedness is the best hope for disaster mitigation" (McKenna, 2009). When discussing CERT, disaster authors consistently use certain words: preparedness, responsibility, and knowledge (Borden, 1991;California Volunteers, n.d.;Carr & Jensen, 2015;FEMA, 2010;FEMA, 2016a; FEMA 2016b); LAFD, n.d.). It should be noted that the words for C-CERT and the words for preparedness are either synonymous or nearly identical, implying C-CERT does not have the corner on the market for preparedness.…”

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“…The California State Citizen Corps (2004) offers a Spontaneous Volunteer Management Plan to address this need and offers a tool to manage a group of untrained volunteers. Having a training program like C-CERT in place before a major disaster is more desirable, and it increases the number of individuals with disaster preparedness skills (Carr & Jensen, 2015). Agencies or trained personnel are not necessarily equipped to manage these altruistic individuals who have received little or no preparation before a disaster (Sauer, et al, 2014).…”

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Developing an Implementation Plan for Program Success

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Explaining the pre-disaster integration of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs)

Cited by 23 publications

References 34 publications

A framework for Earthquake Emergency Response in Iran

A framework for Earthquake Emergency Response in Iran

Collaboration Mechanisms of Taiwan Nonprofit Organizations in Disaster Relief Efforts: Drawing Lessons from the Wenchuan Earthquake and Typhoon Morakot

Developing an Implementation Plan for Program Success

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