emergency management

emergency management

You are a volunteer member of your local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). You are preparing for your first full-scale exercise. As part of your preparation for the exercise, the CERT coordinator told you that you will lead the exercise. The result is that you must complete a white paper plan for the exercises. The paper will contain the main concepts of crisis management that will be explained through the theories of crisis management.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 2–4 pages:

Define and describe the following crisis management and emergency management concepts and terms:

Crisis management

Emergency management

Homeland security

Business continuity

Contingency planning

Management crisis planning

Preparedness

Mitigation

Response

Recovery

First responders

The definitions of the above terms must be written in your own words.

Provide and briefly describe 1 example for each term.

Be sure to reference all of your sources using APA style.