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University of Richmond

2007

Emergency management

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Universal Disaster Impact Scale, Brian James Evans May 2007

Universal Disaster Impact Scale, Brian James Evans

Master's Theses

When disasters occur affecting multiple communities differently, can a determination be made as to which community is in need of financial or humanitarian aid the most? This study proposes a universal disaster impact scale that will allow the impacts of a large variety of disasters, including natural and human systems failures, to be measured against one another. The Universal Disaster Impact Scale includes both quantitative and qualitative disaster impact measurements combined with an economic factor for the affected country in an equation which provides a numeric rating for the disaster. The rating is used to measure the level of need …

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The Next Generation Of Emergency Management : Proposal For A New Model Of Emergency Operations Center For A Growing Regional Emergency Management System, John D. Eggleston May 2007

The Next Generation Of Emergency Management : Proposal For A New Model Of Emergency Operations Center For A Growing Regional Emergency Management System, John D. Eggleston

Master's Theses

The emergency operations center organizational model used by the Charlottesville/Albemarle/University of Virginia (CAUVA) Emergency Management Agency is organized around the various departments that staff the center. The EOC model has been used to coordinate small scale natural disasters and training exercises, but has never been used to coordinate a significant actual event. After-action reports of previous events and exercises have highlighted several functional deficiencies and have led some local and state officials to doubt the model's ability to coordinate a significant event... The research process involved a literature and extant document review which discovered that there were four recognized EOC …

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