Activity 8.1
Read
Textbook
Carter, Disaster management:  A disaster manager's handbook, Chapter 13 (omit the Annex on Standard Operating Procedures).
This chapter from Carter concerns the management of resources, and in particular the organisational changes required for a switch from non-disaster responsibilities to disaster responsibilities.  This discussion could equally apply to smaller emergencies, as well as to large scale disasters.
1.	Can you suggest another stage that will occur after Stage 3 in Carter's description of resource activation on pages 190 to 192?
2.	Take any organisation that you know well as an example, and see how it rates in relation to Carter's functional requirements as described on pages 186 to 187.