Anticipation and Preparation

Overview

Several of the lessons that follow deal with the way organizations and large agencies prepare for and respond to disasters. In this lesson, we also consider the way individuals think about (or fail to think about) and prepare for disasters, and the relationships between these individual responses and organizational strategies for anticipating and preparing for disasters.

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

• Analyze disaster preparation literature to identify strategies that target the individuals/household level, the local government level, and the state/federal government level
• Generate a disaster planning proposal that specifically targets individuals with disabilities and special needs