Disaster Planning Fundamental Requirements
Disaster Planning Fundamental Requirements : (1) Knowledge of disaster agents and impacts (2) Knowledge of [hazard] agent and response-generated demands (3) Knowledge of the disaster context (4) Knowledge of the basic elements of organized disaster response. (5) Necessity of someone or some organization to take on leadership responsibility for developing, coordinating, communicating, exercising, proselytizing, maintaining and operationalizing the plan. (Dynes, Quarantelli and Kreps, A Perspective on Disaster Planning, 1981, pp. 77-79)