EADP 3010 Question and answers already passed EADP 3010 - Exam 1
Civil Defense
More than 60 years ago, the field of EM was known as
More frequent, larger, and new and different types
Nearly 30 years ago, disaster researcher E.L. Quarantelli (1991) warned that the world would face ______...
EADP 3010 - Exam 1
Civil Defense
More than 60 years ago, the field of EM was known as
More frequent, larger, and new and different types
Nearly 30 years ago, disaster researcher E.L. Quarantelli (1991) warned that
the world would face _______ disasters, _______ larger disasters, and
________ and different _______ of disasters
Human Agent
People serve as an active ____________ in transforming a hazard into a
disaster, because a hazard alone cannot become a disaster without people to
transform its potential or to bear the consequences (Mileti 1999)
1. Civil Defense.
2. Professionalization of Emergency Management
3. Evolution of disaster science
4. Emergence of Higher Education
what 4 phases generally characterize the growth in the field
1. Disaster Relief Act of 1974
,2. Stafford Act of 1988
The two primary pieces of legislation that changed the landscape of
Emergency Management and gave the federal government a means to deliver
assistance directly to communities and disaster victims. Most importantly,
these acts described how a Presidential Declaration could be made and what
kinds of aid can be delivered (Sylves 2008)
1979
President Carter created FEMA in what year?__________. This centralized
most of the nation's disaster efforts under one organization and fueled the
professionalization of EM
James Lee Witt, Mitigation, Project Impact
____________ was FEMA director under President Clinton. The first FEMA
director with experience. FEMA was elevated to a cabinet-level position.
__________ was emphasized, or efforts to reduce disaster impacts and costs.
One key program was called _____________.
Deanne Criswell
The current FEMA director. An experienced emergency manager with local
and FEMA career experience, having most recently served as the director of
NYC Emergency Management Department.
1. Loma Prieta Earthquake
2. Hurricane Hugo
, FEMA created the Federal Response Plan (FRP) as a result of two dual
disasters in 1989:
Lay out how the U.S. Federal Government organizes disaster aid to states
What is the purpose of Emergency Support Functions (ESF)?
Tom Ridge
President Bush and the U.S. Congress made what has become the most
significant change to FEMA when they authorized and financed the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, with _____________ as the
first director
22
DHS integrated how many federal agencies under its organizational umbrella?
FEMA also lost its cabinet-level status
Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (PKEMPRA)
"The failures of all levels of government" during Hurricane Katrina led to the
passage of this reform act
Those at highest risk- people with disabilities, medical conditions, and
inadequate resources
PKEMPA focused attention on which segment of society?
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