An Overview of Disaster Management (Department of Humanitarian Affairs/United Nations Disaster Relief Office - United Nations Development Programme , 1992, 136 p.): PART THREE: DISASTER RESPONSE: Chapter 9. Disaster response: Aims of emergency and post-disaster assistance: Emergency operations management

An Overview of Disaster Management (Department of Humanitarian Affairs/United Nations Disaster Relief Office - United Nations Development Programme , 1992, 136 p.)

PART THREE: DISASTER RESPONSE

Chapter 9. Disaster response

Aims of emergency and post-disaster assistance

		(introduction...)
		Warning
		Evacuation/migration
		Search and rescue
		Post-disaster assessment
		Emergency relief
		Logistics and supply
		Communication and information management
		Survivor response and coping
		Security
		Emergency operations management
		Rehabilitation and reconstruction

Emergency operations management

SUDDEN AND SLOW ONSET None of the above activities can be implemented without some degree of emergency operations management. Policies and procedures for management requirements need to be established well in advance of the disaster. More attention is given to this subject in the following chapter on Responding to a sudden disaster.