Community Resilience Textbook
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Course Introduction
Community Resilience explores the capacity of communities to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from adverse situations such as natural disasters, economic shifts, or public health crises. The course emphasizes both theoretical frameworks and practical strategies for strengthening the social, economic, and environmental resilience of diverse communities. Students will examine case studies, learn to assess vulnerabilities, and develop skills to foster collaborative problem-solving, resource management, and adaptive planning. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to contribute to building stronger, more adaptable communities in the face of ongoing and future challenges.
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Introduction to Emergency Management 5th Edition by George Haddow
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Chapter 1: The Historical Context of Emergency Management
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Q1) Emergency management is a discipline that deals with which of the following?
A) Response and Mitigation
B) Preparedness
C) Risk and risk avoidance
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) The federal government responds to disasters when state governments are overwhelmed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Civil Defense directors of the 1950s ran local programs that were well funded by the federal government.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) During the Cold War years of the 1950s,there were few major natural disasters.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Natural and Technological Hazards and Risk Assessment
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Q1) Historically,human development has avoided the floodplain,where the risk of injury to humans and property is great.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Richter scale is a measure of the consequences of an earthquake.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In recent years,significant advances have been made in hurricane tracking technology,to the extent that they can be tracked from the moment they form as tropical waves off the coast of West Africa to their landfall in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Storm surges can only occur from late fall to early spring.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Mitigation
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Q1) The skills and tools for accomplishing mitigation are the same as the operational,first-responder skills that often characterize emergency management professionals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Mitigation seeks to do which of the following?
A) Reduce the impact of disasters
B) Eliminate risk to people and property from hazards or their effects
C) Both a and b
D) Neither a nor b
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following federal agencies provides hazard maps?
A) FEMA
B) USGS
C) DOT
D) a and b
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Disciplines of Emergency Management:
Preparedness
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Q1) Which of the following is the predecessor to the National Response Framework?
A) The National Response Plan
B) The National Planning Framework
C) The Federal Planning Framework
D) None of the above
Q2) Which of the following is not taught in CERT training?
A) Disaster Preparedness
B) Disaster Site Security
C) Disaster Medical Operations
D) Disaster Psychology and Team Organization
Q3) Which of the following is not a component of the preparedness cycle as depicted by the FEMA National Preparedness Directorate?
A) Planning
B) Organize / Equipment
C) Evaluation / Improvement
D) All of the above are included in the cycle
Q4) Over 100,000 people participate in EMI resident and non-resident courses each year.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Communications
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Q1) Which of the following assumptions is not typically considered a critical component of the foundation of an effective disaster communication strategy?
A) Customer Focus
B) Leadership Commitment
C) Media Partnership
D) Command Structure
Q2) External customers include all but which of the following?
A) The media
B) The general public
C) Elected officials
D) All are external customers
Q3) Ushahidi was a crisis mapping website that was used extensively after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The goal of a media partnership is to provide accurate and timely information to the public in both disaster AND non-disaster situations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Response
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Q1) Response capabilities and capacities tend to be stronger in those states and territories that experience high levels of annual disaster activity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a program that establishes benchmarks of skills and knowledge required for each different position in the FEMA workforce?
A) FEMA Qualification System
B) Employee Rating System
C) FEMA Job Task Evaluation System
D) Homeland Security Resource Guide
Q3) Unified Command is used when there is a multiagency response.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The first responders to an event almost always include FEMA officials.
A)True
B)False
Q5) EMAC is a mutual aid system that exists at the State level.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Disciplines of Emergency Management: Recovery
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Q1) Which of the following is generally involved in the recovery process?
A) The business community
B) The Federal, State, and Local governments
C) Community Activists
D) All of the above
Q2) Which of the following establishes the Disaster Recovery Centers?
A) Disaster Coordination Center (DCC)
B) Joint Operations Center (JOC)
C) Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
D) Joint Field Office (JFO)
Q3) Individual assistance is available to business owners.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some components of the Individuals and Households Program may be administered by the local government.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Decisions during recovery are predominantly driven by local government. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: International Disaster Management
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Q1) The United States Government has been widely recognized as the central coordinating body in international disaster response.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following disasters normally involve an international humanitarian response?
A) Natural Disasters
B) Technological Disasters
C) Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
D) All of the above
Q3) The Sphere Project has done which of the following?
A) Set up a fund that provides money for poor nations overwhelmed by disasters
B) Established a legal framework within which agencies must perform
C) Developed a standard of conduct
D) None of the above
Q4) According to state sovereignty,a foreign nation or organization can intercede in the domestic matters without the prior consent of the ruling government in times of disaster.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Emergency Management and the Terrorist
Threat
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Q1) Terrorism differs from natural and technological hazards in all but which of the following ways?
A) Intent
B) Criminality
C) Laws guiding prevention and response
D) Methods of decontamination
Q2) The creation of the Department of Homeland Security follows the same logic that first established FEMA in 1979.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The US Coast Guard was moved into DHS intact.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Emergency management is a discipline that is based on which of the following?
A) Capabilities
B) Risk
C) Funding
D) Terrorism
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