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Assignment : Community Profile

It is important for emergency managers to be aware of human nature factors as well as how the citizens within a community typically behave under normal circumstances and under distress. The purpose of this assignment is for you analyze the behaviors and characteristics of a community by preparing a community profile.

Select any community that you wish, perhaps a community where you would like to work as an emergency manager. You may choose a community that was included in your previous assignments; however, you may not choose the communities/disasters described in the unit lessons of Units I through III. Create a one-page (concise) community profile that answers each of the following:

• Where is the community located, and what did you gather about the location?

• What are the community's typical behaviors? (You may choose how to dissect the details consider answering questions like those in the Unit Ill Lesson.)

• What type of experience does the community have with disasters?

• What types of human nature factors within the community might lead to and require improvisation from an emergency manager?

This assignment involves utilizing research skills such as locating reputable sources and interpreting the details by writing them in your own words.

Please be sure to cite the sources you use after gathering the information about the communil and use proper APA style (title page and reference page are required, but are not included in the required page count).

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit IV Scholarly Activity

Planning is an important task for any manager, and it is imperative for an emergency manager because lives rely on the decisions. Having a plan also allows an emergency manager to perform very quickly when the time comes.

The purpose of this assignment is for you to think critically about the warning, evacuations, sheltering, and improvisations that an emergency manager must address in the response and recovery following a disaster.

Select a major disaster that has occurred within the last 10 years. You may use the event you selected in past units or choose something new.

However, you may NOT use the same disaster(s) that were used as examples in the Unit IV Lesson. If you use the same disaster as you selected from a past unit, you must review at least one NEW/additional article. Use at least one scholarly article that is housed in the online library.

Write a bullet-pointed list to fill two pages, detailing how disaster warnings, evacuations, and/or sheltering were developed and planned for use in response to the disaster.

Also, briefly address examples where improvising in these areas was necessary. Use headings (e.g., Warning, Evacuations, Sheltering, and Improvisation), and also bullet points under each providing specific and detailed example To recap, include each of the following within your submission:

• four headings: (Warning, Evacuations, Sheltering, and Improvisations)

• a list of bullet points under each heading

• a minimum of two pages worth of bullet points (total)

• APA style to format the title page and reference page