Activity 1.3
Read
Textbook

AEM:  Community Emergency Planning Guide, Chapters 1 and 2.

Carter, Disaster management:  A disaster manager's handbook, Chapter 12, pp.153‑81.

Now without looking back at your texts, answer the following questions in your own words, and then check your answers.

1.	What are the expected results of the planning process?

	
	
2.	Why do emergency plans need authorisation?

	
	
3.	Why is a resource analysis necessary?

	
	
4.	What administrative levels in your country require emergency plans?

	

5.	Does Carter actually describe a planning process, that is a series of steps that will develop a plan?

	
	
Try to answer these in your own words first before turning back to the appropriate sections in the study materials to check your answers.

6	List the five components of the emergency prevention and preparedness model suggested.

	

	
7	What objections are likely to arise if a planning project is suggested?

	

	
8	What are the desirable outputs of the planning process?