Improving Disaster Emergency Communications: the Practice, Policy & Politics of Emergency Management.

Brief Description:

Generally in every town as well as city, there is a dedicated response team of personals who respond to emergency incidents of any type. Hence the promptness and ability of good communication is a must for this team. But there have been many instances when there are communication gaps and deficiencies which affects the ability to respond to any emergency in time and effectively. In order to minimize these instances of errors and ineffective disaster emergency communication, there needs to be certain improvement. All the protocols regarding emergency communication needs to be revisited.

Interest:

I am interested in the topic because, one of the most important needs during any disaster management is the proper response from an emergency response team. This response is based on the effective communication between the teams and the affected area personnel. There have been many instances in last few decades in which unavailability of proper emergency response team had a great toll on the lives of many.

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