| Series |
NGA state emergency management series
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| Contents |
Preface -- Executive summary -- Section I. Field explorations and findings. 1. A brief organizational history -- 2. State preparedness and response -- 3. State models analysis -- 4. Interviews with governors and state emergency directors -- 5. Federal reactions analysis -- 6. Functions and effects in emergency management -- 7. The concept of comprehensive emergency management -- Section II. Tools for implementation. 8. State DEM program development -- 9. Governors' CEM monitoring system -- 10. Governors' CEM information system -- 11. Executive orientation -- 12. Gauging and declaring emergencies -- 13. National emergency assistance programs -- 14. Federal authorities -- 15. Governors' CEM manual -- 16. Managing domestic terrorism -- 17. Recommendations -- Appendix A. Summary work plan for the emergency preparedness project -- Appendix B. Final summary tasks and products of the emergency preparedness project -- Appendix C. Glossary of terms and acronyms -- Appendix D. Thirty emergency cases by agent, state model, and declaration status -- Appendix E. Thirty case evaluation indices -- Appendix F. Warning, onset, and duration characteristics of 30 emergencies -- Appendix G. Thirty emergency cases by summary descriptions, management considerations, and scattergrams of observed management -- Appendix H. Eight state composite scattergrams by planned management activities -- Appendix I. Scattergrams of five state organization models by planned management activities and observed management activities -- Appendix J. Field investigation summary responses of 30 cases -- Appendix K. Governors and state emergency offices interviews : summary responses -- Appendix L. National Governors' Association policy position A-17 : emergency preparedness and response -- Appendix M. National Governors' Association policy position A-19: comprehensive state emergency management -- Appendix N. Acknowledgements -- Appendix 0. Bibliography -- Appendix P. Gubernatorial emergency authorities by state. |
| Abstract |
Because governors have become increasingly concerned about the lack of a comprehensive national emergency policy, as well as the dispersion of federal responsibilities among numerous federal agencies which has hampered states' ability to manage disaster situations, they took concerted action in 1977. During the fall of that year, the National Governors' Association, which represents the mutual interests of the combined U.S. governors, took these actions: adopted a policy statement calling for a national policy, and consolidation of federal emergency preparedness and response services; set up a Subcommittee on Disaster Assistance; initiated a comprehensive one-year study to analyze the problems of all-risk management, and recommend federal-state-local assistance improvements; and began working with the Federal Emergency Preparedness and Response Study of the President's Reorganization Project (PRP/FEPR). |
| General note | Cover title: 1978 Emergency Preparedness Project. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-382). |
| Issued in other form | Online version: National Governors' Association. Emergency Preparedness Project. State comprehensive emergency management. [Washington, D.C.] : Printed for Defense Civil Preparedness Agency : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979 |
| Other title | 1978 Emergency Preparedness Project. |
| LCCN | 79604013 |
| Govt. docs number |
D 14.2:EM 3/978 |
