Readings 2

Week 2 Readings & Video

Skim read and/or view the following assignments and sets of assignments.

Select any one assignment or set of assignments as a topic for your long posting due on Thursday.
Select a second assignment or single set of assignments as a topic for your short posting due on Friday.
- Some assignments may include questions that you are being asked to address in a long or short posting.
- All postings should include a focus on relevance of the assigned material to some aspect of planning and preparedness for homeland security and emergency management or planning or preparedness for homeland security and emergency management in general.

* If you have viewed and/or read some of the assignments before for other courses in the Emergency Management Certificate Program, please focus your comments in your postings on some some specific aspect of planning and preparedness or on planning and preparedness in general.

General Russel Honore (Set of 2)

"Hurricane Katrina Military Response," Links to an external site. General Russel L. Honore, the Commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, in a presentation before the Houston Forum on February 13, 2006. 58 minutes.
General Russel Honore, Eleven Quick Fixes Download General Russel Honore, Eleven Quick Fixes
mentioned in his presentation before the Houston Forum & Senate Committee (February 9 & 13, 2006). See Files Section of the course website for slides of General Honore’s Eleven Quick Fixes.

Michael Brown (Set of 2)

Michael Brown Keynote Address Links to an external site. before an annual meteorological conference at Mammoth Lakes, California, January 18, 2006. (63 minutes.)
Michael Brown Deposition Download Michael Brown Deposition
, March 16, 2006, Select Committee, February 11, 2006.

Washington Post (Set of 2)

"Department's Mission Was Undermined From Start Download Department's Mission Was Undermined From Start
" by Susan B. Glasser and Michael Grunwald, Washington Post Staff Writers, December 22, 2005.
"Brown's Turf Wars Sapped FEMA's Strength: Director Who Came to Symbolize Incompetence in Katrina Predicted Agency Would Fail Download Brown's Turf Wars Sapped FEMA's Strength: Director Who Came to Symbolize Incompetence in Katrina Predicted Agency Would Fail
" by Michael Grunwald and Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post Staff Writers, December 23, 2005.
- If you select this set of articles for your posting, please respond to one of the following questions:
  - What lessons were applied in subsequent major hurricanes?
  - What lessons were applied in Hurricane Sandy?
  - What lessons should have been applied in Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Irma?
  - What were the major impediments to preparedness prior to Hurricane Katerina?

Hurricane Katrina

"Thoughts about Katrina: Responses to Two Questions about Hurricane Katrina and America's Resilience Download Thoughts about Katrina: Responses to Two Questions about Hurricane Katrina and America's Resilience
" December 1, 2005
- The Forum on Building America's Resilience to Hazards, held December 19-21, 2005, was sponsored by The American Meteorological Society in collaboration with The Space Enterprise Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
- All invited attendees were asked to submit responses to any or all of four questions prior to the Forum. These are the author's responses to two of the questions.
- In your long posting, comment on any aspect of the article as it pertains to planning and preparedness.

Comparative Scenario & Options Analysis

Paula D. Gordon, " Comparative Scenario and Options Analysis: Important Tools for Agents of Change Post 9/11 and Post Hurricane Katrina Download Comparative Scenario and Options Analysis: Important Tools for Agents of Change Post 9/11 and Post Hurricane Katrina
," Homeland Security Review, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2006.
- In your long posting, discuss how the ideas in this article might be applied to planning and preparedness, either in a general way or in a specific way.

Project Impact

Project Impact Report from 1998 For an interesting report on Project Impact from 1998, see University of Delaware Disaster Research Center FINAL PROJECT IMPACT #40 Report Download University of Delaware Disaster Research Center FINAL PROJECT IMPACT #40 Report

In your long posting, comment on Project Impact and the relevance that such a program might have to planning and preparedness.

The Megacommunity

The Megacommunity: Cross-sector Collaboration...EIIP Virtual Forum "The Megacommunity: A Group Discussion on Cross-sector Collaboration for Preparedness Download The Megacommunity: A Group Discussion on Cross-sector Collaboration for Preparedness
," Wednesday, February 27, 2008.
- In your long posting, comment on Project Impact and the relevance that such a program might have to planning and preparedness.

Paulette Aniskoff

A talk by Paulette Aniskoff Download A talk by Paulette Aniskoff
(former Director of FEMA’s Office of Individual and Community Preparedness and now no longer with FEMA)

In your long posting, comment on whole community approach and the relevance that such an approach might have to planning and preparedness.

Additional Article for Ungraded Assignment

Todd Stewart, "Counter Terrorism Model Download Counter Terrorism Model
"

Thesis on Leadership

“Leadership Behavior in Task-Oriented Groups -- Some Problems and Potentials” Download “Leadership Behavior in Task-Oriented Groups -- Some Problems and Potentials”
Paula D. Gordon
- In your long posting, please consider the ways in which the assignment pertains to addressing problems and challenges discussed in the course and discuss two or three major insights or take aways that you have had as a result of studying this assigned reading.