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Disaster Planning

1. Potential future disasters that could be created based upon current world conditions include increased severity of hurricanes and floods, potentially on account of changing climate conditions. Such disasters can be amplified in their effects because of policy priorities. Poor attention to enforcing building codes and creating usable transportation options in all countries are not expanding the terrible problems of responding not just to the current earthquake in Pakistan but to similar disasters in countries that have bad infrastructure because they have such strong corruption (Thompson & Fathi, 2000), with the result that casualties are in the tens of thousands. Thus in nonindustrialized countries the potential for disaster is increased.

Another potential future disaster could be created--whether by nature or by man--because the wrong kind of planning goes into preparing for it. Auf der Heide criticizes planners who "prepare for the worst-case disaster scenario . . . involving tens of thousands of casualties" (Auf der Heide, 2000, p. 2.17), when the most likely kinds of disasters are of moderate size. More generally, a failure to respond, after disasters, to weaknesses that have been identified in disaster response itself, could be fatal, whether fire, flood, storm, or terrorist attack is the problem. Failure to implement effective communication systems, as well as failure to implement effective control and incident-management systems, loom large. That is why Auf der Heide calls for integration of multiple resources and agencies into planning and preparedness efforts, with the planning process conceived of as something that will "bring[] order out of chaos" (p. 7.23). That is also why the failure of the U.S. government to provide adequate funding for the multiple programs that it announced in response to 9/11, plus misdirection of resources to combat terrorism (e.g., body-searches of little old ladies at the airport and the fail...

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